A restaurant inside California State Prison Solano provides a one-of-a-kind training program that provides opportunity and a ...

At Stillwater, corrections officials are testing an “earned living unit” that trades privileges for accountability and has gone two months without a lockdown.

Each time a door clangs shut behind us, my heart races a little faster. We’ve taken off our shoes, belts, and jewelry to get through security, handed over our IDs, and left phones and laptops in the ...

On February 16, 2000, Scott Favreau, then 17, committed a crime that shattered a family and shocked the state of Vermont. In the early hours of the morning, he walked up to his foster mother, who was ...

Inmates at the Bismarck state prison launched a podcast, Chainz to Changed, focusing on life in prison and preparing for re-entry. Zach Schmidkunz, left, and Antonio Stridiron, center, speak with a ...

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In September, against a backdrop of razor wire and imposing concrete walls rising from Colorado’s remote Eastern Plains, incarcerated men inside Sterling Correctional Facility took part in an ice ...

Oz was the protype of the modern prison drama, mainly because it felt so gritty and real. But there have been plenty in that vein since, from the more adventurous Prison Break to the semi-comedic ...

It was a gray morning in Marin County and the wind was howling on the tennis court. I was waiting for Matt "Doc" Montana, a middle-aged bespectacled man that I had just met, to serve. We were starting ...

“Venezuelan deportees say they endured months of abuse inside a Salvadoran prison” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and ...