YouTuber Ruhi Çenet was left stunned by the solitary confinement cell inside El Salvador's notorious maximum security prison, CECOT.

The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

Trump this week agreed an "unprecedented, extraordinary migratory agreement" with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele to ...

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

Here is our only interaction with human life.”   Cedar Annenkovna reaches through the 12-inch slot on the cell door. The steel bars reach well above her head and anchor into a cement block in the ...

Gaps in materials disclosed by sheriff’s officials under SB 519 raise questions about whether the law is being interpreted as ...

The monitor appointed by a judge to track violence in the city’s notorious jail complex said in a highly-anticipated report ...

Esther spent hours a day learning and davening while in prison. Every Shabbos, she used a bedsheet to make a tablecloth and ...

An inmate at the Henry County Adult Detention Center has filed suit against the jail, Sheriff Wayne Davis, and three deputies for being kept isolated in solitary confinement for nearly 16 months.

Tony Evers announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a probe into Waupun, WI’s oldest prison after ...