A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed ...

Together, they reveal how a global vision of mass incarceration is spreading, one cellblock at a time. These facilities ...

The government gets festive and so do the inmates. Daniel Genis' Thanksgiving dinner specialty was always fried mackerel. Not the most traditional dish, to be sure, but nor were the circumstances ...

For the first time since InvestigateWest exposed widespread sexual abuse by Idaho prison staff, the director of Idaho’s ...

Israel’s military struck entrances to the detention facility in Tehran, where dissidents and political prisoners are held. Human rights groups say the prison is a symbol of repression. By Matthew ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs is currently on trial for sex trafficking and racketeering. Authorities arrested the music mogul in Sept. 2024, and he has resided in New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center since.

Bryan Kohberger could spend the rest of his life in the Idaho Maximum Security Institution (IMSI) after pleading guilty to the murder of four University of Idaho students in a plea deal ahead of trial ...

Robert Menendez, a former Democratic senator, has been in prison since June. He hasn’t seen his wife, who is set to begin ...