In the Mexican series Prison Cell 211, as a lawyer gets stuck in a prison riot, it’s hard to defend anyone when you’re the ...

Directed by Gerardo Naranjo and Jaime Reynoso, ‘Prison Cell 211’ follows Juan Olivera, a human rights lawyer in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, who gets stuck in a prison riot at the Cereso 38 state prison.

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

Learning coding, an instructor explained to the incarcerated men, is a way to build a self-sustaining life, and a reminder ...

Bukele had offered to take in people deported from the US, regardless of their nationality, and house them in El Salvador's ...

Based on a 2023 report, the Department of Correctional Services needs R36 billion to meet prison capacity demands.

Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of ...

Jennifer Lopez is a vamping diva in Bill Condon's 'Kiss of the Spider Woman,' a musical movie in search of something better.

Prison bosses have revealed they are worried about the very possible prospect of drones being used to lift inmates up and out of jail. They are already being used to deliver drugs into cells ...

One of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century, Discipline and Punish is unsettlingly prescient in our ...

Roger Hallam is serving a five-year sentence for advocating direct action during a videoconference. It hasn’t stopped him.