Nobody talked to corrections officers about the problem. Involving the guards was forbidden in that part of the jail. Instead, one of Vaefaga’s cellmates approached a leader of the prison gang known as Murder Inc., told him what was happening, and asked to be moved.

A senior software engineer for Turso, Thorpe is part of an experimental program in the Maine state prison system that allows incarcerated people to work remote jobs from custody.

Nadya Tolokonnikova, the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, is back in a prison cell -- but this time, she has gone willingly.

"When you're living inside the walls of a Toys 'R' Us, ... who is currently serving a 40-year sentence in Central Prison in Raleigh, he has had extensive phone conversations with him.

A family from southwestern Africa that was living in Washington state while seeking asylum said they were detained by immigration officials for nearly a month in a windowless cell.

Mohsen Mahdawi is a free man. That has not come easily. It has taken a national human rights campaign to free Mahdawi and keep him free. He is among the first people in the country to be freed ...

The image of Conrad coming down the stairs, reveling in the cheers of a prison full of joyful criminals is a direct nod to The Italian Job, Peter Collinson's 1968 crime comedy starring Michael ...