The world spends hundreds of billions yearly to punish offenders, with little return beyond more crime and less hope. DW examines how private contractors, organized crime gangs and inmates exploit ...

The South Central Correctional Center leaves LGBTQ people defenseless, so they’re organizing to fight for their safety.

Prison bars that were once used as instruments of confinement at the Cook County Jail will be repurposed as musical instruments as part of a performance Wednesday by Chicago-based artist Maria Gaspar.

It’s a sight you normally don’t see in a prison — inmates and visitors walking a red carpet, happily posing for photos that aren’t mug shots. That was the scene last week at Marin County’s San Quentin ...

A female prison officer who was caught having a romance with an inmate behind bars and sending him flirtatious messages has been jailed for a year. Aimee Duke, 26, was seen on CCTV behaving ...

In the aftermath of the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces last month hundreds of Venezuelan political prisoners have been released, many of them from detention centers that ...

Prison bars illustration by Rawf8 via iStock for WMNF News. The tampons were stacked and bound together with a rubber band. The incarcerated people at the Patrick O’Daniel Unit — a women’s prison in ...

For many prisoners, the difference between freedom and a cramped prison cell isn't a guilty verdict — it's a lack of money. Imagine being granted bail by a judge, only to remain behind bars ...