A decade ago El Chapo was caught in a firefight in Mexico, extradited to the United States and sentenced to life in prison at ...

Beginning in Philadelphia in the late 1700s, the U.S. prison system has evolved over the centuries to become the largest in the world.

Lockdown: Who Are the People Behind Bars in the United States? Almost 80% of women in state prisons lack a high school degree; 15% were homeless at least once in the year before their arrest; and 65% ...

A decision whether to mandate air conditioning inside Texas prisons is in the hands of a federal judge, as advocacy ...

May 4 (UPI) --President Donald Trump Sunday announced plans to reopen Alcatraz, the notorious prison in San Francisco that housed some of the nation's most infamous and dangerous criminals in the ...

European citizens are being detained at the border since Trump's return to the White House. Here are some tips to minimize the risk of ending up handcuffed in a detention center. Rebecca Burke, a ...

States of all political stripes, including Oklahoma, North Dakota and Massachusetts, have sent officials to tour prisons in Germany in search of ways to improve conditions for American inmates. At ...

"Corporations [have] no moral conscience. [They] are designed by law to be concerned only for their stockholders, and not, say, what are sometimes called their stakeholders, like the community or the ...