The Independent Monitoring Board has praised HMP Kirklevington for its dedication to education and employment :: It did, however, highlight a problem with bedbugs in 'a few' units ...

This little town in Himachal Pradesh has a long history of being the place where criminals were sent. It even gets its name ...

This Father’s Day, listen to Prisoncast! on WBEZ to hear stories of moms, dads and children working to love each other across ...

It has been a decade since New York state and beyond were in the midst of a massive manhunt after two inmates escaped from ...

Former Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Mulverhill, who did job training at the Dannemora prison, remembers thinking the two ...

The Due Process Continuity of Care Act would help maintain Medicaid coverage during pretrial incarceration, preventing the ...

Oklahoma prosecutors will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss, Attorney General Gentner Drummond ...

Nadya Tolokonnikova, the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, is back in a prison cell but this time, she has gone willingly.

From the beginning, the escape from Clinton Correctional Facility by David Sweat and Richard Matt has been described "like something out of a movie." The story was ripe for moviemakers and their ...

The Palestine Branch was one of the most feared security centers in Syria, infamous for its brutal interrogations, arbitrary ...

After more than a week on the run, state officials are hoping technology can help them track down the man dubbed the "Devil ...

Some youth in Maryland spend more than a year in adult jails before seeing their day in court. Without a fix, the state may lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding every year.