GENEVA (29 January 2025) – Independent human rights experts* today expressed deep concern about the lack of effective investigations into allegations of gender-based violence and ill-treatment of ...

In the days following Lansing’s death, prison officials limited access to the dayroom, showers and yard, temporarily suspending prisoner ... could face more misconduct claims, since the Ohio ...

Set in a tidy, no-frills group house somewhere south of the Chicago metropolitan area, “Downstate” gives us four disparate housemates with one thing in common: they’re all registered sex offenders.

Vikramaditya Motwane’s Netflix series, starring Zahan Kapoor as a rookie jailer, is a detailed and discomfiting look at the inner workings of Tihar ...

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system ...

"Recently, 45 out of 70 prisoners gathered to protest in the prison yard against the death sentences of Pakhshan Azizi and Varisheh Moradi," two Kurdish women's rights activists who are in prison ...

The man charged with fatally shooting a Kentucky deputy during a traffic stop will spend the rest of his life in prison, ...

Texas inmate Cesar Hernandez details the execution day for Ramiro Gonzales in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project.

Gilbert Arenas did not hold back when discussing Miami Heat President Pat Riley, giving him a blunt reality check about his outdated approach to player management.

Just days after the Royal opening of Forest Bank Prison dozens of hooded inmates lit fires and barricaded themselves in their ...

Charles Fink, 64, of Lexington, was sentenced Thursday in Morrow County Common Pleas Court to life without possibility of ...

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, often shrouded in secrecy, is a sprawling facility divided into multiple compounds, each with varying levels of security and accommodation.