AP reports that some judges have refused to send people to the prison because conditions are so bad. In 2019 the prison was without power and heat for a week in January.

Prison is a scary place. Even in the movies, it's the kind of place that is impossible to romanticize, and Hollywood can do that with a lot of other terrible places. Prisons are also a place where ...

“It’s a bad place to live,” he said. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ Rockview state prison as seen from College Avenue on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.

"Try to think of the most troubled girls from high school, and then imagine 400 of them stuck together, in a place that is miserable, where they are isolated from their family and the rest of ...

A planned prison for "dangerous criminal immigrants" in the Everglades, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," is facing opposition from environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe. The proposed prison ...

“It’s a bad place to live,” he said. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ Rockview state prison as seen from College Avenue on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.

Shackles, shock troops, windowless cells: How bad is Trump's favorite Salvadoran prison? El Salvador's notorious maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center is harsh, dangerous and cruel.

Prison journalist John J. Lennon on how TV producers exploit incarcerated people for their true-crime shows.