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

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.

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 ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul said that early reports suggested “extremely disturbing conduct” leading to the death of Messiah Nantwi, 22 ...

CoreCivic, through its Leavenworth prison, wants to hold up to 1,000 detained immigrants. The U.S. does not have enough ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has set new execution dates for four inmates after a nearly three-year pause. The temporary ...

Local residents have voiced opposition for a number of reasons, including the shuttered prison’s history of violence and ...

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, one of the world's most notorious drug lords, built an empire on power, fear, and strategic ...

A contract to reopen a privately owned Newark detention center may be the first in a wave of reopenings of shuttered ...

This prison outside Philadelphia is modeled on prisons in Norway and Sweden that are considered the most humane and effective ...