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.

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.

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.

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.