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 ...

Prisons across the U.S. are experiencing critical staffing shortages and a new study says that the prison complex may never recover ... so changes are coming. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Two days of deadly violence in the Negombo prison have laid bare the persistent decay in the Sri Lankan prison system, and by ...

The Justice Department’s Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Wednesday that it is rolling out a new inmate tablet program ...

Gangland bosses are increasingly running their criminal empires from prison, David Lammy has said. In an article for The Telegraph, the Justice Secretary said organised crime was ...

Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, Emily Bazelon talked with Judith Resnik about her new book, Impermissible Punishments: How Prison ...

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Some of the gangs South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley listed as tied to violence at the men’s prison in Sioux Falls have the largest gang presence in prisons around ...

Asheville shop Firestorm Books is suing South Carolina prisons over a policy that destroys books not from approved vendors.