When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

Residents of Roxana, Kentucky, are battling it out over whether to transform a piece of land, which formerly housed a strip mine, into a federal penitentiary or to rewild it and let the bison roam ...

In 1977, Murray was offered a full-time role as the prison’s fine arts instructor, which he held till he retired in 2003 and, ...

As the film tells it, the story of this mural is also that of the crisis at Rikers and of “prison” in spectacular decay — ...

Mario Monteiro sat down with me to talk about how he spent 23 years in prison for a murder he committed when he was 17 in Providence.

Belarus released an unnamed American citizen from prison on Wednesday, marking the second such release under the Trump administration. The move comes as Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, still ...

A program at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility is providing avenues for inmates to better themselves. It's a class ...