After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, over 20 percent of the world's prisoners ...

Donald Trump could send US citizens and legal residents who are locked up in the US to El Salvador's fearsome CECOT prison as ...

Donald Trump has deported more than 250 alleged gang members to El Salvador to be incarcerated in the fearsome CECOT prison, ...

and all prisoners sentenced to solitary confinement, by any court, shall be placed in light and well-ventilated cell, provided with a seat and the means of communication with the prison officers ...

Socorro County has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who alleges he was forced to live surrounded by his own waste in a county jail cell with no running water for weeks, ...

It's also a reminder of the disarray that ensues from strikes put on by state employees, who hold monopolies on public goods.

The United States has deported hundreds of migrants to El Salvador where they have been placed in the notorious CECOT prison ...

The state and the correctional officers’ union agreed that officers should return to work Monday and that some provisions of ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially ...

He has spent nearly five decades in prison. His violent rampage led authorities to place him in extreme solitary confinement, inside a glass-walled cell built specifically to contain him.