Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is announcing the sentencing of Ameen Hurst, a 19-year-old man who escaped prison last year after being involved in four separate homicides.

In a letter to Human Rights Watch, he chronicled his unsuccessful efforts to induce prison authorities to protect him from abuse. Summing up these experiences, he wrote: "The opposite of ...

A former West Virginia correctional officer has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation in the death of a man who ...

The phenomenon of prison electronics is by now relatively well-documented, with striking transparent radios, televisions, and kin easy to recognize. Yet what about prison laptops? As it turns out ...

Prison data from the Vera Institute was collected in each state using a department of corrections survey. Corrections departments from 40 states completed and returned the survey, which asked ...

“It’s just morally wrong.” IPP prisoner James Lawrence, 38, has served almost 18 years after he was originally given an eight-month jail term (Mandy Lawrence) With the Labour government not ...

Outside the prison walls, a small, grassroots movement formed around an equally urgent task: Share these stories with the world. Incarcerated writers, lacking e-mail and Internet access ...

A correctional officer at a women’s prison in Alabama is charged with sex crimes against an inmate, officials said. The Alabama Department of Corrections Law Enforcement Services Division and the U.S.

In 2020, the University of Minnesota purchased about $20,000 worth of furniture from MINNCOR, an industry program that uses prison labor to create furniture and other home goods. MINNCOR is a program ...

HM Prison Winchester has ‘high levels of violence’ and is damaged (Picture: PA) A watchdog has called for Winchester prison to be put into emergency measures after finding it was so damaged ...

A prison is so "dilapidated" an inmate was able to remove his own cell door, an inspection has found. A watchdog has called for Winchester prison, a category B jail in Hampshire, to be put into ...

Mr. Naji is an Egyptian novelist, and the author of the memoir “Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison.” He wrote from Las Vegas, where he is in exile. Shortly after I ...