I HAVE BEEN IN PRISON for more than 30 years. When I came to prison, the corrections goal was isolation, retribution, and ...

Israel’s military struck entrances to the detention facility in Tehran, where dissidents and political prisoners are held.

Belarusian dissident Siarhei Tsihanouski says he was held in solitary confinement, in conditions similar to torture, during five years in prison ...

Siarhei Tsikhanouski, speaking a day after his release from Belarusian prison, tried to smile and joke, but struggled to hold ...

The prison system has denied my request to tour the isolation cells at the Racine Correctional Institution. It has denied my repeated requests to interview prisoners held in isolation cells (they ...

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia offers exactly that raw, unfiltered connection to the past – a crumbling cathedral of correction that draws visitors from every corner of Pennsylvania and ...

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

One building in the Delaware prison system is not equipped with air conditioning, but the Department of Correction says it's ...

PHOENIX — Nearly four years after a man died while restrained in a Phoenix jail cell, his family will be awarded a $4 million settlement, county officials have decided.