In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

A Swiss court convicted Trafigura and three people linked to the commodities trading firm of corruption in Angola, in what ...

"The Alabama Solution" is one of the most powerful exposés of the inhumanity of the American prison system I’ve ever seen. Directed by Andrew Jarecki ("Capturing the Friedmans," "The Jinx") and ...

And it infiltrates the world of prison with an ingenuity, and emotional directness, made possible (in this case) by technology. A Supreme Court ruling has decreed that wardens can bar journalists ...

Incredibly, the 5-foot-2-inch woman was called on by local authorities to quell a prison riot in which the prisoners were attacking and killing one another. The warden said that she claimed to ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) — A former warden says the proposed Lincoln County prison will end up being a billion dollar albatross. The Dakota Scout reports Doug Weber has sent a letter to lawmakers, ...

The new contract was signed just four days before the warden at Montana State Prison was put on leave, although the state corrections office has released no further details on the matter.

DEER LODGE, Mont. — The Montana State Prison Warden, Jim Salmonsen, has been placed on leave, according to the Department of Corrections. The circumstances of Salmonsen's leave are unknown at ...

Lawmakers will continue to discuss the investment over the course of the 69th Legislative Session. The Montana State Prison warden is on leave, according to the Montana Department of Corrections. The ...