After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

The day before state authorities announced plans to restrict inmate movement and revoke visits and other privileges, three ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities ...

While ideas diverge, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle appear to agree something needs to be done about overcrowding at ...

A Burlington man has been sentenced on March 13 to 16 years (192 months) in federal prison for receiving child pornography.

The US has flown more than 250 accused migrant gang members to El Salvador — where they will be sent to one of the world's ...

Roughly 75% of corrections officers have returned to their posts, effectively ending a three-week wildcat strike that ...

MPs who are sent to prison have been granted permission to do their Parliamentary casework in their cells, using the prison postal system to send and receive letters. The announcement was made by ...

The strike that paralyzed New York prisons for three weeks ended with most workers returning to their jobs and the state firing 2,000 who stayed out.

The functioning of the judiciary reveals that it has exercised its powers in creative ways and devised new strategies to ensure the protection of human rights of prisoners. In recent decades, the ...

More than 2,000 prison workers participating in an unsanctioned strike have been fired, the Department of Corrections and ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has barred prison guards who were fired for illegally walking off the job from being hired for ...