Long before it became an ICE detention center, the Miami Correctional Facility was constantly beset by violence fueled largely by gangs and drugs.

In a new episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald interviews three formerly incarcerated filmmakers about the ...

For pregnant women who are spending time in prison, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintains specialty programs and ...

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.

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.

Oct 14 (Reuters) - A Massachusetts man who breached the network of education software provider PowerSchool to steal data belonging to millions of students and teachers and extort the company was ...

One of the most powerful lawmakers in Illinois' history begins his federal prison term Monday. Michael Madigan, a Chicago Democrat who holds the title of the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S.