Mother-baby bonding is crucial to a child’s development and leads to decreased recidivism rates, according to research. But prison nurseries aren't the ideal place to grow up. In Nebraska, the ...

Tucked in a residential neighborhood of bungalows and crape myrtle trees, the federal women’s prison in Bryan, Texas, doesn’t look like a traditional lockup. The women live in dormitory-style rooms ...

Most of us only know what prison life looks like thanks to movies and TV shows — and those tend to exaggerate almost everything. In reality, a lot of what people believe about prison is a mix of myths ...

The former Theranos CEO, convicted of fraud, shares details of her life behind bars and separation from her family Philip Cheung/The New York Times/Redux Disgraced former CEO Elizabeth Holmes speaks ...

Prosecutors say he stole millions, bought more than 6,000 gold coins and chartered a private plane to deliver them to an ...

A warden who oversaw a culture of abuse at two different federal prisons has a new job — running a national training academy for the Bureau of Prisons. Andrew Ciolli was in charge of the penitentiary ...

After a summer of record-breaking temperatures, scientists predict that 2024 could end up being the hottest year on record. For people in U.S. prisons and jails — who often lack access to even the ...

Women who allege they were raped in a California prison by a biological male claiming to be transgender will be compelled to refer to the defendant using she/her pronouns, a Madera County judge ruled ...

Most days, Rami Nsour heads to his local post office to find his mailbox stuffed with letters from incarcerated people from all over the country seeking his spiritual guidance and Islamic education ...

One Saturday morning in early September, I got a WhatsApp video call from eleven strangers locked inside a secretive detention camp in a forest in Ghana. Their faces looked glazed with sweat and ...