It's also a reminder of the disarray that ensues from strikes put on by state employees, who hold monopolies on public goods.

There's a private interest behind the detention and the incarceration of our community,” said an activist protesting the ...

A 47-year-old ex-prison guard from Kapolei pleaded guilty Monday to raping female inmates while he worked at the Federal Detention Center Honolulu, according to a plea agreement with the U.S.

But Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and James Sabatino have spent more than five years in side-by-side cells – segregated from all ...

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and efforts to challenge it.

The unexpected transfer to the West Virginia prison known as “Misery Mountain” caused me to wonder: Was I being retaliated against?

As someone who has studied execution methods in the U.S., I see the resumption of death by firing squad as part of a morbid ...

Jails are dangerous places, and Donald Trump plans to lock up more immigrants than ever before. Right now, Immigration and ...

A suspected participant in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members and roughly 170 ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 2001, is scheduled to be executed on March 7 at the Broad ...

A consent award to end the illegal prison guard strike across 38 of the 42 Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS).

A private prison company says it will reopen an immigrant detention facility in Texas that previously held families with children for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement CoreCivic announced the c ...