Theodore Dalrymple, a prison and hospital doctor in inner-city London and a frequently published writer, begins his essay on prison death and life with dramatic understatement: “The last time I ...

“The guards were escalating their abuse of prisoners in the middle of the night,” says the report, when they thought no one was watching. “Their boredom had driven them to ever more pornographic and ...

The U.S. makes up 5 percent of the world’s population but has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Our judicial and penal systems have failed, and they perpetuate a system of racial disparity, ...

The full body tattoos, obnoxious screaming, and violent conflict resolution were foreign to me as a nerdy, upper-middle class kid with thin wire-frame glasses. Keeping my head down and ears open was ...

With more than 3,600 confirmed cases among inmates and staff members, Avenal State Prison has the country’s largest covid-19 clusters of any prison. (California Department of Corrections and ...

In 2015, Todd Cioffi paid his first visit to the Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan. While a team of faculty, staff, students, donors, and administrators have poured into the program ...

WYOMING COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – On September 9, 1971, 1300 incarcerated men had rebelled due to inhumane prison conditions, taking over the prison and holding 40 guards hostage. This week marks the ...

He spent almost two decades in prison for killing a man in a drug deal in Detroit when he was a teenager. After seven years in isolation, he changed his mindset. Today, now free, Shaka Senghor is a ...

Prisons minister Crispin Blunt has promised that lessons will be learnt after rampaging inmates torched buildings in an "unprecedented" jailhouse riot. After examining the damage at Ford Open Prison ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Attica Uprising and the remnants of that rebellion continue to impact us today. Soffiyah Elijah, a prison reform advocate and the executive director with ...