President Trump has pressed for quickly deporting hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran men who are said to belong to a foreign crime gang. Those deportations have been challenged as illegal — and ...

Prisoners who are Black or Muslim have an increased chance of being placed on the Basic regime as punishment for breaking ...

No other country in the world has as many people in jail as the United States. Not China or India, both of which have four times as many people, but much lower incarceration rates. (0 Ratings) ...

The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude—except as punishment for a crime. This so-called "Except Clause" has long been used to justify forced ...

Prisoners actually make the meal themselves which has all of the days leftovers like kidney beans, meat, and vegtables.Detention Center Director Willy Bamberg said he has tried taking away inmate ...

An incarcerated person working at a North Carolina prison. As a workaround to a labor shortage, North Carolina is relying on some of its incarcerated workforce to install air conditioning in prisons. ...

We keep building prisons as acts of faith, based on the dubious notion that if we confine enough people for long enough, we'll be delivered from what we fear. The language shifts--capacity, ...

Thalia Anthony receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The media spotlight is once again on the issue of prison conditions, as sentencing looms for Erin Patterson – convicted for three ...