Popular parental advice to teens throughout history. What I imagine strangers think when they see me reading a book in public ...

At least 15 people have died in pretrial detention just this year at Texas’s notorious Harris County Jail. Truthout is a ...

Difficult-to-detect synthetic drugs smuggled into Nevada’s prison system through ink on mailed correspondence has caused a substantial increase of overdoses among the inmate population, according to t ...

A Montgomery pastor who ministers in Alabama prisons told state lawmakers Wednesday that he sees incarcerated men who are ...

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said that the prison system is “creating monsters” after he was released from prison last week. “We are creating an environment of failure, so people are prone ...

A rare instance of a prison guard found guilty of murder was welcomed by advocates of reform, but many were disappointed by ...

While it doesn’t look away from its characters’ rage and sorrow, “The Peculiar Patriot” also is often funny and full of joy.

If you’re a writer or filmmaker hoping to create a hell on earth, might as well start with the most famous city in the world.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader — Marwan Barghouti — is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in exchange for hostages held by Hamas ...

A new HBO documentary is pulling back the curtain on one specific facility, the Alabama State Prison. WFMY News 2's Manning Franks reviews the 'Alabama Solution' New details released about the death ...