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 ...

In the wake of an unsanctioned three-week correction officer strike that ended in early March, inmate-on-inmate assaults have ...

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

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.

A new HBO documentary airing Friday pulls back the curtain on one of the country's most controversial prison systems, and it doesn't hold back. "The Alabama Solution," from directors Andrew Jarecki ...

In prison, the summer heat cooks us inside our cells, causing tempers to flare. If that’s not aggravating enough, every morning, when I’m lying down in my bunk here at Eastern Correctional Facility, a ...

To her thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram, she is a creative artist with a flair for mythology and symbolism. Now, Sybilla Bakzaza is at the center of a criminal case that underscores the ...

Investigators identified a corrections worker who resigned after leak of Kohberger video. Idaho police found no criminal violation under state or federal law for the recording. IDOC cited the policy ...