The Louisiana parole board on Monday denied freedom to 71-year-old Henry Montgomery, a Baton Rouge man convicted of killing a sheriff's deputy whose case was central in a U.S. Supreme Court decision that juvenile offenders be given a chance at release.

The first conjugal visits in America took place in 1904 at Parchman Penitentiary, an institution that resembled a slavery-era plantation more than a prison. By Alex Mayyasi.

Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison in his sexual abuse case. The 54-year-old appeared in court in Lansing, Michigan, on Wednesday, January 24, for the seventh day of his criminal sentencing hearing. More than 150 victims delivered powerful impact statements in that time, detailing how Nassar abused and manipulated them over the years.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled that the practice of prolonged and indefinite solitary confinement in Canadian prisons is unconstitutional. In a lengthy ruling released Wednesday, Justice Peter Leask found that the laws surrounding what is known as administrative segregation in prison discriminate against Aboriginal and mentally ill inmates. He said the existing rules create a situation in which a warden becomes judge and jury in terms of ordering extended periods of solitary confinement.

Lapses in food safety have made American prisoners six times more likely to get a foodborne illness than the general population.

Inside the booming market for food in pouches, clear electronics, pocket-less clothing and other corrections-approved goods.

Seven months ago, Chris Schuhmacher was inmate number T31014, serving out the tail-end of a 17-year murder sentence at California's infamous San Quentin prison overlooking San Francisco Bay. Today, just months after his release, Schuhmacher blends in with the Silicon Valley crowd as a software engineering intern at a bustling tech firm, ditching his blue prison uniform for a sweater and khakis, and his cell for a cubicle.

Ayahuasca may be helping to reduce rates of recidivism at Brazil's prisons. Some of Brazil's violent offenders are being offered the opportunity for radical rehabilitation via the powerful psychedelic experience of the ayahuasca ceremony.

The man who pleaded guilty to murdering a DC yoga teacher on Christmas Day was sentenced to  30 years in prison Friday.Duane Johnson pleaded guilty back in September to first degree felony murder for killing 30-year-old Tricia McCauley.Johnson was caught d

Nearly 50 years after he was arrested in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse, a Louisiana man walked out of prison on Wednesday, his life sentence and conviction overturned by a judge who said the case against him was “weak at best.” Authorities withheld evidence decades ago that could have exonerated Wilbert Jones, now 65, State District Judge Richard Anderson said.

A Louisiana man who has spent nearly 50 years in prison is expected to be released Wednesday, about two weeks after a judge overturned his conviction in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse. Wilbert Jones didn’t show any visible reaction when State District Court Judge Richard Anderson set his bail Tuesday at a mere $2,000. The judge previously said the case against Jones was “weak, at best” and that authorities withheld evidence that could have exonerated Jones decades ago.

Bobby Hutt died of cancer in October 2014, after suffering for over a year. His sisters say the Vermont Department of Corrections "killed him" by waiting until the cancer got so bad that Bobby's leg broke beneath him. Like many people who have lost a loved one to cancer, his sisters look back on his decline with a mix of love and despair.

Started in 1964, the Angola Prison Rodeo at Louisiana State Penitentiary provides inmates a moment of freedom. By Jeff Hamada.

Because of the intervention, many recovery programs in Oklahoma remain exempt from state oversight. By Amy Julia Harris, Shoshana Walter.

How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and turned his prison upside down. By Colin Lecher.

A privately held prison closes, pushing a small American town to the brink of depression. By Julie Ruth.

California’s dry climate, Santa Ana winds, and long periods of drought create the perfect combination for wildfires. Every year between May-November at the height of wildfire season, the state turns to inmates for help. California isn’t the only state with a prison firefighter program, but they rely on inmate firefighters far more than anyone else.

Inmates killed two people and injured 10 more as they set fires and attempted a prison break Thursday, officials said. Fires were set in the sewing plant at Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City, the state Department of Public Safety said Thursday afternoon. The high-security prison has a capacity of 896 inmates and was housing 729 on Thursday, authorities said.

Filmmaker and photographer João Wainer talks about the years he spent taking pictures of what was once the largest prison in Latin America. By Débora Lopes as translated by Livia Holmblad.

Across the country, ICE detainees are allegedly being coerced into performing work without proper compensation. By Michelle Chen.