Inmate deaths, a riot, fires, and stabbings led the US Department of Justice to investigate the Alvin S. Glenn Detention ...

Authorities say they have traced seven homicides — two in a California prison, five on the streets of Los Angeles County — to ...

TEHRAN - This 15th-century domed structure, better known as Zendan-e Iskandar (“Alexander’s Prison”), derives its name from a ...

A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology's ...

Artist Jesse Krimes remembers the despair he felt every time he was forced to stand for a mug shot. Each time, he stared down the lens with a mixture of disgust, defiance, and dejection. “My image was ...

The Haarlem Koepelgevangenis ("dome prison") is just one of three so-called panopticons in the Netherlands: circular prisons ...

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor stated that Israeli prisons and detention centers, by their very design and ...

Another inmate at Forest Bank prison in Salford has died. They collapsed and died in hospital on Wednesday, a prison ...

The Blair County Prison Society is offering recommendations on designing a new county prison, based on the expertise of its members who have been making monthly visits for more than 25 years. “It’s so ...

A federal case against a Klamath Falls man today is documenting evidence that he tried to escape jail, twice. It also ...

The Georgia Department of Corrections and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp unveiled a plan Tuesday to spend an additional $600 ...

Gov. Brian Kemp's plans for 2025 include hiring hundreds of new correctional officers and launching an extensive renovation ...