SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. -- It's a far cry from breaking rocks in the hot sun on a chain gang. In New York's Adirondack Mountains, inmates break ice on a fr...
This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Michael Santos, Author and Speaker, michaelsantos.com Some may find it absurd, but the most ...
For 23 hours a day over the course of four months, a 21-year-old inmate at Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone, N.Y., shared an isolation cell the...
The federal prison system has been unable to keep pace with the stream of inmates flooding its facilities over the last five years despite adding spac...
Bogus and false arrests happen. Most people are quick to judge until someone they know and care about screws up and is on the wrong side of the law. When that happens, you'll want that person to receive fair treatment, and for fair justice to run its course, even if the person is guilty.
Of the 2.3 million prisoners now being held, more than 100,000 work in federal and state prison industry programs. This doesn't mean the usual cooking and cleaning, but work that produces products for sale -- about $2.4 billion dollars annually.
When looking beyond the mugshot to the bigger picture, mounting evidence suggests that older adult offenders are also the victims of abuse and neglect vis a vis our prison system. The time to take action is now, both for our societal mores and our collective pocketbook.
Mimi Mattel has a lot going on in her life right now. She's in jail and she's currently transitioning from a man to a woman. "You know not a lot of...
Although San Quentin State Prison is known for its notorious past, currently it happens to be the most stable and consistent of all the prisons. Here is a typical day for me.
Americans were once riveted by the horrific news of the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Today, I believe there is another atrocity taking place inside our own American prison system.
MONTERREY, Mexico — An inmate riot that may have been staged to cover a breakout killed 44 prisoners Sunday, and the jail's director and all gua...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The family of one of eight inmates who drowned last year in Puerto Rico while shackled inside a state van caught in flood wat...
Just a single visit from a family member or a friend can make a big difference in whether or not a prisoner ends up back behind bars after their relea...
Programs won't ever reduce recidivism to zero, but if we can reduce it and improve the lives of offenders and potential victims, we must.
Conventional wisdom says that if we lock up criminals they won't be committing crime and therefore society will be safer. This is a very simplistic analysis.
PITTSBURGH — Officials have confirmed an outbreak of salmonella poisoning at a high-security federal prison in northeastern Pennsylvania that si...
CHICAGO — After spending years at the center of heated national debate over capital punishment, Illinois' death row officially died Friday when ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A clothing shortage is forcing inmates in at least one Illinois prison to wear the same underwear several days in a row, causing ...
By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Prison inmates who are deprived of their religious rights cannot sue states for monetary damag...
WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service has paid out more than a half-billion dollars in homebuyer tax credits to people who probably didn't qualif...
Luke Whyte writes about criminals. And he hitchhikes to find them. On his blog, Voices of Justice, Whyte chronicles the experiences of people who h...
The official unemployment figure of 9.6 percent is, according to a new report, "unrealistically rosy" because it doesn't account for a full 2.3 millio...
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that the rate of inmate sexual victimization rose dramatically between Justice Depar...
When Adolf Jerger was sent to Cook County Jail in February for failing to pay child support, he never imagined his six months behind bars would includ...
For more than ten years, I've been teaching animal behavior and conservation biology at the Boulder County Jail in Colorado as part of the Jane Goodall Institute's Roots & Shoots Program.
