The Oregon Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle a wrongful death and negligence suit filed by the mother of a man who died by suicide while in solitary confinement at a ...

Assaults on correctional officers in New Jersey’s state prisons are not an aberration, but part of a trend both officials and ...

In Jharkhand, thousands of Adivasis have been arrested on Maoist allegations. They have spent years in prison before being ...

Ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next month, a trailer has landed online for the Indonesian ...

Chaos around prisons holding ISIS detainees in Syria is highlighting security risks for U.S. forces in the region.

I saw men with money and education fail because they isolated themselves.” You don’t need to go to prison to learn these ...

"Terrible Tom" was known for his extreme violence and leadership of one of the world's most feared prison gangs.

Newsom’s past actions have made it clear he deplores capital punishment as deeply as many civil rights advocates,” writes ...

"One minute, you think a guy would cut your heart out just for something to do, and the next, he might be making tea for a ...

He likened himself to Alfred Dreyfus and Edmond Dantès, unjustly maligned heroes of French history and fiction. Trump went ...

The Iowa Board of Nursing has suspended the license of a prison nurse accused of failing to properly assess a patient with ...

Background Suicide is one of the most common causes of death in correctional settings. This study aimed to analyse prison ...