Justice chiefs are facing calls to adopt a more “humane approach” after it emerged that inmates with intellectual and ...

When Monica Cosby, Tyteanna Williams and Celia Colon talk about the years they spent as inmates at women's prisons in Illinois, their stories often turn to the times they would be disciplined for what ...

Speaking to the BBC, Prisons Minister Lord Timpson said there were too many women who were victims of domestic abuse in the ...

As frustrations among corrections officers mount, abusive treatment of inmates is rising and becoming more vicious, records ...

Like most other institutions, prisons cannot run on repression alone. Prisoners’ conformity to the rules doesn’t come solely at the end of a baton: there needs to be a carrot as well as a stick. The ...

The Nevada Department of Corrections have identified two of the inmates killed in a deadly prison altercation on Tuesday. The incident at Ely State Prison, the only maximum-security prison in the ...

Every morning, 53 prison inmates woke up to bright lights and the sound of chow at 4:30 a.m. A small fraction rubbed groggy eyes, put on orange jumpsuits and sandals, and shuffled towards the trays ...