Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

When journalist Peter Greste was languishing in a Cairo prison cell, he could little imagine that one day, Richard Roxburgh ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

A centenarian in New York had one wish for her birthday -- to go to jail. Two days after Ms Loretta turned 104, she visited ...

The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is addressing several major challenges amid ongoing ...

A NEW STATE LAW requires California to maintain oversight of all publications banned in state prisons. The state’s Office of ...

The lockdown took place at Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County, with the incident beginning around 1 a.m.

San Salvador — It takes about 90 minutes to drive from El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, to the most notorious prison in the country. Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, ...

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office invited media to tour the Shelby County Jail. A CA reporter saw deteriorating conditions ...

What is considered contraband inside prison — cell phones, internet access, and even outside food — is permissible in community custody. In halfway houses and home confinement, prisoners can ...

A horrific new video shows charred bodies left inside a female prison block in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where hundreds of women were raped before being burned alive. The atrocity ...

More information: Christopher Muller et al, Falling racial inequality and rising educational inequality in US prison admissions for drug, violent, and property crimes, Proceedings of the National ...