A violent “transgender” male prisoner was quietly transferred back to a men’s prison in June, years after he was accused ...

A Justice Department investigation continues into a California women’s prison that came to be called the “rape club,” in ...

Addiction, poverty, and trauma are driving women into prison for minor thefts, while overcrowded jails hinder real ...

Culley, the pregnant British teenager accused of being a drug mule, awaits her fate behind the bars of a notorious prison far ...

The Myanmar junta continues to use imprisonment not as a tool of justice, but as an instrument of repression, while ASEAN ...

Accounts from inside Tehran's Evin Prison are as harrowing as they are rare — many of those locked up inside never make it ...

The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the ...

Prisoners at Glasgow's newest custody centre for women have had their food budget cut by 25%. Glasgow’s new women’s jail has ...

Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, residents pushed back.

Court of King’s Bench Justice Melanie Hayes-Richards on Friday handed Jeff Kent, 55, an indeterminate sentence for frauds ...