A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives would take on one of the biggest safety concerns in federal prisons.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has ...

A former Trousdale Turner correctional officer, prison chaplain, activist and incarcerated person weigh in on the causes of ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

The Idaho Department of Corrections is taking steps to reconfigure a portion of the state's largest prison to prepare to ...

Akiyo was lodged in Tochigi Women's Prison, Japan's largest women's prison, located north of Tokyo. It houses nearly 500 ...

Shares of private prison companies have grown since the election. Those facilities could expand under Trump, despite claims ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

The Last Mile, a national nonprofit, is expanding its web development classes to prisons across the country, including in New England.

South Korea: In a video by World Friends, a South Korean prison meal consists of rice with beans, along with assorted fresh vegetable "ban-chan" (side dishes), a side of beef and radish soup, and ...

Sleeping arrangements are stainless-steel cots stacked several layers high in large cells packed with dozens of inmates ... destined for El Salvador’s biggest prison as well.