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 ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating after a death row inmate was killed at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano on Friday. Convicted murderer Mario ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too costly ...

Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the fall of the Assad regime. Sky News' lead world presenter ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing the notorious "rape club" women's prison in Dublin, Califorina, and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay ...

If a judge resentences the Menendez brothers, their lives behind bars in the past 34 years will play a role on whether or not they are paroled. Rehabilitation officials praised the Menendez brothers ...

Today’s prisons often resemble medieval “oubliettes”, in which offenders are locked up to punish them for their actions and to protect society. Research shows this approach can worsen, rather than ...

In 1971, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a notorious experiment in which he randomly divided college students into two groups, guards and prisoners, and set them loose in a ...

Sprunki is a Roblox experience where you drag various elements onto 2D characters to morph them and give them a unique look. This game has you try out different morphs and learn more about them in the ...

Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm gave an update Wednesday on construction of the $1.25 billion, 4,000-bed prison in Elmore County. Hamm said the prison is about 40% complete.

There are more than 3,600 woman prisoners in England and Wales - a number the Ministry of Justice projects will rise to 4,200 by November 2027. But Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood believes “prison ...

A prison outside Las Vegas will become Nevada’s new maximum-security facility, with the state’s highest-risk offenders being transferred there from the prison in Ely in eastern Nevada that currently ...