A gang member ensnares a non-violent inmate into helping him take over their prison block in this intense drama.

The prison held more than 1,000 incarcerated men, ... Miss., is working on a memoir about her experiences as a prison chaplain. Modern Love can be reached at [email protected].

Read more about this story and why we reported it here. The underground art of prison tattoos has gone mainstream at Delaware’s largest lockup. In recent weeks, men imprisoned at James T. Vaughn ...

One modern slavery survivor who was sent to prison told researchers that in custody “no one wanted to listen”, adding: “For so many years I was too scared to talk”.

They described the time together as an "honor and a privilege." Six men comprise the program's first class of artists. They were chosen by prison leadership based on their history of good behavior ...

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. – Speaking out in a case involving Marylanders incarcerated at the Baltimore County jail, a coalition uniting the national American Civil Liberties Union, several ACLU state ...

A new play by an arts organisation that works with prisoners and staff in UK prisons will explore society's relationship to punishment. Punishment Acts is set in a fictional prison and will ask ...

Alabama inmates have filed a class-action lawsuit against the state, claiming that the prison labor program is "modern-day slavery." The lawsuit alleges a illegal violations.

The outgoing director of Arizona's prison system was "surprisingly uninformed" about broken cell door locks at Lewis Prison, the danger the problem posed and how his administration's efforts to ...

But rehabilitating the historic site as a modern prison could be a legally complicated and expensive challenge, say former National Park Service leaders, Democrats and conservationists.

Hundreds of modern slavery victims may be being locked up in prisons across England and Wales, an exclusive investigation by openDemocracy can reveal. Between March 2023 and June 2024, the Prison ...

The prison population in England and Wales is now more than 88,000, nearly double what it was 30 years ago. ... “We want a modern prison service. We don’t want prisoners sharing cells.