This is the only Tennessee prison with a yard where we can touch grass. People housed at other facilities are almost never ...

To some in this city, turning Alcatraz back into a prison would be a crime. “The Rock” closed 62 years ago, and San Francisco has channeled the public’s macabre fascination with life inside the ...

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

The fight between inmates came a little more than a month after two other incidents on the penitentiary campus, one of which ...

The coronavirus is infiltrating state prisons, and inmates, lawyers and families fear the worst. Three inmates at the Virginia Correctional Center for Women in Goochland, a contractor and three ...

Inmate Jim Smith said he did not understand why the settlement does not mandate air conditioning for the prison’s chow hall and gym, where religious services are held. “I’m a fat boy. I’m huge. I get ...