Many corrections authorities have turned to prolonged supermax confinement in an effort to increase their control over prisoners. They believe that if they can confine all the most dangerous or ...

In 1995 a federal court examining the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of the Pelican Bay State Prison—a California supermax —found that “many, if not most, inmates in the SHU experience some ...

Twelve Black inmates at Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's first super-maximum security prison, have reportedly set themselves on fire since September in a bid to get transferred away from abusive ...

James Silvia, who has twice escaped from the state prison, will get a parole hearing. He once covered himself in hand lotion and slipped out a window of the supermax prison.

President Bukele, who labels himself as the "coolest dictator" and a "philosopher king," has built election success and ...

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s millennial dictator, has offered to house migrants and “dangerous criminals” deported by the ...

was previously convicted of assaulting a correctional officer at a federal penitentiary in Louisiana in 2006 and attempting to stab another inmate to death at the federal Supermax prison in ...

Counting inmates in the private prison and the supermax means about one in every five residents in the 2nd Ward is incarcerated. “City council is supposed to represent those who live in those ...