On a military base in El Paso, Texas, masked men in combat fatigues paraded a group of young Venezuelan immigrants, their hands cuffed and their ankles shackled, in front of the cameras, before ...

He had not lived in Haiti since age 4. Now, finally freed, he knew no one. Start the day smarter. Get all the ...

Lobster wasn't always synonymous with a nice night out. People once considered these crustaceans pests, so just how did they ...

In echoes of last summer’s riots, the government is again being accused of enabling a “two-tier” justice system in the UK.

Nigerian prisons are overcrowded beyond imagination. A prison built for 500 people could be housing over 2,000. This means ...

The day before state authorities announced plans to restrict inmate movement and revoke visits and other privileges, three ...

A legal principle intended to ensure systemic factors that impact the background of Indigenous people are considered when ...

Content warning: Discussions of murder, rape, and assault. Recently, we featured stories from formerly incarcerated people ...

Zachary Buckner has analyzed data that tracks rates of prisoner misconduct throughout a statewide prison system. His analysis ...

Dominique Pelicot, 72, was sentenced to 20 years in prison over the attacks on his wife Gisele that lasted for more than a ...

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...