In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums offers a rare way to hear what incarceration sounded like decades ago.

The Alabama Solution,” a smuggled cellphone chronicle of inmate deaths, sexual abuse and deplorable conditions inside what ...

The Alabama Solution, nominated for Best Documentary at this year’s Oscars, is a horrifying, necessary film to watch.

The Alabama Solution” reveals stark, rarely seen realities inside Alabama prisons and questions whether the system should continue unchanged.

State lawmakers want to create a new state entity to perform independent autopsies of incarcerated people and reduce unexplained deaths in New York prisons and jails. Assembly Member Erik Dilan, chair ...

The death of an incarcerated man at California State Prison, Sacramento is being investigated as a homicide, with both the victim and his cellmate originally received into state custody from Los ...

The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office recommended closing the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad to help California reduce its corrections spending. Andrew Kuhn [email protected] ...

A South Carolina convict serving time in state prison on armed robbery charges has just been indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening high national officials — for the third time over an ...

The Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit from a fired state prison worker. The state fired the corrections worker because she allowed an inmate to use a cell phone, but she claims her ...

BOSTON — The former president of the union representing Massachusetts state troopers and the union’s former lobbyist were sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $86,000 in restitution ...

PHOENIX — Saying she's run out of patience that inmates are suffering and dying unnecessarily, a federal judge wrested control late Thursday of the state prisons' health-care system from the ...

A Denver judge on Friday ruled that the Colorado Department of Corrections has been violating a 2018 amendment to the state constitution by requiring people in state prisons to work under the threat ...