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 ...

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 ...

She drove 60 miles to alert staff about her fears for Isaiah Olugosi, who admitted a string of offences over a shoplifting ...

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Norristown Acting Police Chief James Angelucci announce the charging ...

Defined culture conditions robustly maintain human stem cell pluripotency, highlighting a role for Ca 2+ signaling Comparative analysis of 100+ PSC lines highlights biological differences ...

The NAACP board said they are “profoundly disturbed” over the governor’s decision to suspend elements of the HALT solitary ...

A woman who was brutally raped by Sofyan Boalag when she was 15 says he deserves no compensation after he was violently ...

Pakistan’s prison system is at a breaking point, with over 102,000 inmates crammed into overcrowded, under-resourced ...

At the time of the ambush, Amra was being transferred from his prison cell to the office of an investigating magistrate ...