Decades of tough-on-crime rhetoric have narrowed political debate, but safer communities may depend on shifting the conversation toward prevention, accountability and repair.

A screenshot of a video of a protest in Canaleta prison, in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. UNPACU, José Daniel Ferrer. Unprecedented videos coming out of a high-security prison in Cuba have shown, possibly for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado Department of Corrections officials forced inmates to work prison jobs through coercion that ultimately amounted to involuntary servitude, a Denver ...

In the yard, orange rust streaks the backboards of two basketball hoops. Weeds grow in the cracks of the concrete court. Blotches of moss blanket the eight benches encircling the court, a couple of ...

Marylynn Roper is standing by in Santa Fe to anchor our coverage of the first anniversary of the penitentiary riot that occurred exactly 1 year ago today. The event, of course, shocked all of America ...

The top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees have requested a visit to the prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is being held, alleging preferential treatment ...

House Democrats told the attorney general that more than a dozen whistle-blowers had come forward with reports of Ghislaine Maxwell receiving perks in prison. By Michael Gold Reporting from the ...

Jimmy Trammell was killed in a prison riot just three days before his scheduled release after ten years. A gang-related sidewalk fight left three inmates dead, 13 hospitalized, and forced an emergency ...

Marion Vannier receives funding from the UK Research and Innovation Future Leader Fellowship. We were standing by a large white board in one of the prison’s educational areas, debriefing how our study ...

Three inmates are dead and 13 are injured following a fight at Washington State Prison in Davisboro. Local deputies and state troopers assisted the GDC in regaining control of the facility and ...

'Twas three weeks before Christmas, and in the prison yard, a drone-dropped package was found by a guard. With steak, weed and crab legs, and cigarettes for days. And to season it all, a tin of Old ...

Over two decades, a minimum-security prison aimed at helping inmates prepare to leave prison was a point of civic pride. Now, state officials have converted it to ICE detention. Over two decades, a ...