A retired journalist writes of the upcoming clemency hearing for Tommy Zeigler, convicted in multiple Winter Garden slayings ...

Stone walls don’t just make prisons, they tell stories – and the Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, has some of the most spine-tingling tales you’ll ever hear whispered through century-old ...

One of the largest private prison companies in the world is under a Supreme Court review, and most of it stated in Aurora.

In their quarterly financial report, CoreCivic, the private prison operator, announced that it did well financially despite the government shutdown. CoreCivic ...

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of ...

After a year-long battle over leadership of San Mateo County’s top law-enforcement agency, the Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 ...

Calvin Duncan was cleared of murder after he became a legal authority in prison. In New Orleans, his campaign for clerk of ...

A Human Rights Watch report uncovers torture, beatings, and inhumane conditions faced by Venezuelans deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison ...

Lauren Wachtler responds to a recent op-ed supporting mandatory prison visits for judges, drawing on the experience of her ...

Martha Stewart didn’t set out to be the arbiter of American taste. After graduating from Barnard College in 1963, she began ...

The justices heard oral arguments in Landor v. Louisiana where they are asked to decide if a man can sue prison guards after ...

"The institution is run in an orderly fashion which makes for a safer more comfortable environment for all people concerned, ...