A new book investigates how the U.S. criminal justice system targets survivors of domestic violence to prosecute them for ...

"Many of the guards are a stone's throw away from being, or should already be, inmates themselves." ...

Two women have opened up about the judgment they regularly face because they found love in arguably one of the most unromantic places—prison. Paige Nicole and Gigi Taylor said "I do" to two convicted ...

Mackenzie Shirilla, the suspect behind two murders, recently shot back to infamy after Netflix released The Crash, a documentary about her crimes and sentencing. Although Netflix has been accused of ...

At least 27 inmates were found dead from asphyxiation Sunday at a prison in Ecuador where a riot broke out that left four others dead and dozens injured earlier in the day, officials said. The inmates ...

We were standing by a large white board in one of the prison’s educational areas, debriefing how our study on hope had gone when the man slipped into the room without a sound. Like the other ...

Anyone who has followed the devastating violence in California’s prisons knows that gang rivalries trigger a lot of the bloodshed. So it stood to reason that if the authorities could get members to ...

In 2017, Sylvester Jackson joined a forgiveness therapy group simply to get out of his cell in a maximum-security prison—he might not have participated otherwise. This happenstance involvement ...

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