Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross have a duty to react after an attack on a prison complex killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war

A judge has denied the latest request by Enrique Tarrio, the former top leader of the right-wing group the Proud Boys, for release from jail while he awaits trial on criminal charges relating to last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol.

How a failed agenda of jail reform produced one of the country's most infamous penal colonies.

The libraries are meant to provide beauty, access to literature and cultivate a community space in prisons nationwide.

Jussie Smollett’s new digs are actually pretty terrifying — as one would expect from a prison. The Cook County Jail where the “Empire” actor will spend the next 150 days has faced hundreds of lawsuits over the years, with inmates alleging overcrowding, violent treatment and not enough protection against other inmates.

Being sentenced to prison for playing a video game sounds pretty rough, but apparently it can happen to you if you’re a kid in Russia.

People incarcerated as adolescents and teens are more likely to die at young age than the rest of the population, an analysis published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found. Those ages 11 to 21 years who previously served time in juvenile detention facilities have a nearly six-fold higher risk for early death compared with those who have not been incarcerated, the data showed.

The US, UK and Australia have all announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The reason given for the move is because of human rights abuses in China, particularly in the turkic-speaking region of Xinjiang. Techdirt has been...

Three years ago, the young man who would later be known as John Doe 1 shuffled into the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan. The town of 11,000 residents, which sits in the remote center of the state, houses five prisons, and over the years, it has earned the nickname “I Own Ya.” John, who was 17, had already gotten over the initial fear of going to an adult prison—he had spent several months at a county jail near Detroit and an intake facility in Jackson—but he also knew he would be spending longer at this lonely outpost, a minimum of three years for a couple of home invasions.

Alex Skopic reports on widespread attempts to ban books and shrink U.S. prison libraries. The carceral system is aiming to both further immiserate prisoners and set up corporations like Barnes & Noble to profit from them.

Despite California’s landmark sanctuary laws, state prisons are still cooperating with...

Jimmy McGovern’s hard-hitting drama is a brutally honest portrayal of a failed public service and gets everything right about prison life – minus the tedium.

Days after the official nationwide abolition of slavery in December 1865, Alabama made it illegal for Black farm employees to sell a long list of foods, including corn, rice, cotton and “animal of any kind.” Another law punished Black people for gathering in a “disorderly way,” one professor said in a Cornell Law Review article. Another for carrying a pistol. And whipping and branding were scrapped as penalties, while a new sentence was added: “hard labor for the county.”

A prison inmate at Minnesota Correctional Facility at Oak Park Heights, the five star maximum security prison where Derek Chauvin is being held, believes the convicted ex-cop is not safe with the general population.

Harvey Weinstein’s extradition to Los Angeles was delayed yet again after his legal team fought his transfer during a remote proceeding Monday afternoon. One of his attorneys said that Weinstein was scheduled for several critical health procedures — to treat his failing vision and “save his teeth” — and should be able to get them before extradition.

A lot of rights just vanish into the ether once you're incarcerated. Some of this makes sense. You have almost no privacy rights when being housed by the state. But rights don't disappear completely.

Drawing on her work in UK prisons, Manchester Metropolitan University's Kirstine Szifiris explains how philosophy can provide prisoners with the sense of growth essential to being human.

To get a feel for what it means to have 2.3 million Americans jailed or imprisoned, start scrolling through this infographic. As you scroll, the infographic presents some facts: There are more inca…

The U.S. government collects data on who’s dying in which jails around the country – but won’t let anyone see it. So, Reuters conducted its own tally.