For more than 40 years, the United States—a nation that putatively cherishes freedom—has had one of the largest prison systems in the world. Mass incarceration has been so persistent and pervasive ...

For the first time since InvestigateWest exposed widespread sexual abuse by Idaho prison staff, the director of Idaho’s ...

In the harsh corridors of the American prison system, stories of fear and survival echo through the walls. Among them is the haunting tale of the youngest and most feared inmate to ever walk those ...

Over the last several decades, the United States earned the title of “incarceration nation.” From 1980-2020, this country led the world in sending people to jails and prisons and incarcerated a larger ...

"They don't want the public to see what's really going on on the inside..." HBO Max has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled The Alabama Solution, an extraordinary inside look at ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Former federal prison warden Percy Pitzer has published "A Warden's Path," drawing from his career in corrections to advocate for prison reform and better community reintegration of ...

Gov. Tony Evers announced a massive corrections overhaul that would completely change the structure of Wisconsin’s prison system. His proposed plan carries a price tag of $535 million and aims to ...

The American prison system wasn’t built to fail. But right now it’s struggling. I’ve seen it from both sides. A gang leader in my youth, I spent 14 years in prison, facing a 100-year sentence for ...

ALBANY — The last six unprecedented months in New York’s prison system, which included a fatal beating of a prisoner and the longest strike by prison guards in state history, could create an ...

The reality show star argued in a press conference that the prison system disadvantages Black men. In his first press conference after his release from federal prison after President Donald Trump ...