Wuornos shot and killed seven men, claiming at least one was in self-defense. A new Netflix documentary revisits her crimes through never-before-seen interviews with the serial killer, who was ...

Olympia Jones, living in the Turley Correctional Center, is among the featured writers in the Poetic Justice anthology of ...

Sweden’s Skanska has won a project management contract for a $312m, 420-bed women’s prison in Chesterfield Township, New Jersey.

The design of a 400-bed, 33-acre campus in Chesterfield Township will target a safe, secure environment for therapeutic ...

Wuornos' life and crimes were first depicted in the 2003 film Monster, in which Charlize Theron portrayed the killer, and ...

David Brian Pearce, 43, has been behind bars since he was arrested in December 2021, after the two friends had spent their ...

Appearing in court for the first of the murders, of Richard Mallory, Wuornos claimed she'd acted in self-defence, insisting ...

A hands-on program certifying incarcerated women as heavy equipment operators offers a model for closing labor gaps and ...

It is the women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Saline where inmates and former inmates are alleging some pretty serious health hazards inside, behind all that barbed wire. Trump panics over a ...

BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) — In June 2024, Andrea Weiskircher thought her life was over. She was sobbing in a jail cell in Boise thinking about what she had just done. Encouraged by a former Idaho Department ...

NEW YORK CITY — Far too often, Black children and other children of color are funneled toward the criminal justice system in their own schools, facing disproportionate discipline and criminalization, ...

President Bernardo Arévalo called an overhaul of his country’s prison system an “absolute priority” after 20 inmates accused of belonging to the Barrio 18 group were found to have escaped undetected.