Francis C. Smith began his march into the record book 76 years ago. At age 25, he and a partner were arrested for shooting to death a night watchman who surprised them as they burgled the posh Indian ...

A man says he endured freezing cold conditions while held in solitary confinement at a Michigan ICE detention center. He was ...

Peyvand Naimi has spent more than six months in an Iranian prison, accused of killing state security agents during nationwide ...

Columbia Legal Services has filed a class‑action lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Corrections over what it ...

Amidst a heat wave in Madison, people who were once incarcerated in Wisconsin’s prison system and supporters gathered ...

The Statesman Journal spoke to one of five people suing the Oregon Department of Corrections for its solitary confinement ...

Advocates gathered today to call for changes to Wisconsin's prison system, talking about overcrowding in corrections ...

A restored sanctuary inside Philadelphia's historic Eastern State Penitentiary offers visitors a glimpse of Jewish life ...

California officials dial back the minor reforms they've made to isolation in prison, four years after Governor Gavin Newsom ...

We do want a fundamental restructuring,’ says the founder of Youth to End Solitary SD. His group will sit down Wednesday with ...

The sister of Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has challenged the conditions of his detention, describing it as ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections confined inmates in “dungeon-like conditions” in solitary confinement and refused to ...