As federal lawsuits challenge President Trump's executive order impacting trans inmates, the Bureau of Prisons is putting a stop to new policies demanding trans women hand over female-identifying ...

Three prisoners found hanging in their cells in the space of three weeks died in an "overwhelmed" jail, a jury has found. Anthony Binfield, Rolandas Karbauskas and David Richards were inmates at HMP ...

The hasty extradition of a left-wing German activist to Hungary was unlawful, Germany's Constitutional Court ruled in a ...

The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador, where President Donald Trump claimed he would jail US citizens in a 'heartbeat', can hold 40,000.

Inside North Carolina prisons, 13 inmates killed themselves last year. Three more died in January. State officials say they ...

Prison inspectors say prisons are not doing enough to help women cope. For some this lack of care to meet their basic needs ...

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

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

A man doing time for an armed robbery in Manchester is accused of assaulting a corrections officer attempting to carry out an ...

A fuel cell is a device that generates electric energy through electrochemical reactions between an oxidizing agent and a fuel – a material that stores energy in chemical form. Both species are ...

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, often shrouded in secrecy, is a sprawling facility divided into multiple compounds, each ...

By Lisa Powell SAU Theological Perspective With all the recent discourse around mass incarceration in the U.S., many are now ...