El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities ...

Louisiana’s leaders have the power to choose mercy over death, to affirm that our justice system is capable of grace. Jessie ...

Mass deportations carried out under Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, an 18th-century wartime law.

A former Crawford County deputy has appealed his prison sentence in a case where he was accused of hitting a man in the head ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially ...

The US has deported over 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to be held in a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador after ...

it banned the use of leg shackles, but now guards tell us that’s putting them and the public in danger. Earle spoke with Brian Englert, the President of the Allegheny County Prison Employees Union.

I was unsure where the rules of a prison ended and the rights of a patient began when someone entered our hospital in shackles. It never occurred to me to ask my patient whether he wanted the ...

Inmates around the country have complained about dangerous "kennel" vans, which have metal benches and walls, a prisoner advocacy group says.

Josh Rosales was convicted of felony murder in 2007 — jurors found he was present during a man’s murder at a Denver motel, but he didn’t pull the trigger.

BY THE AFTERNOON, THE FORMER CRAWFORD COUNTY DEPUTY WAS LED OUT OF THE COURTHOUSE IN HANDCUFFS AND SHACKLES AFTER PLEADING ... UP TO ONE YEAR IN FEDERAL PRISON AND A $100,000 FINE.