Theodore Dalrymple, a prison and hospital doctor in inner-city London and a frequently published writer, begins his essay on prison death and life with dramatic understatement: “The last time I ...

In 2015, Todd Cioffi paid his first visit to the Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan. While a team of faculty, staff, students, donors, and administrators have poured into the program ...

With more than 3,600 confirmed cases among inmates and staff members, Avenal State Prison has the country’s largest covid-19 clusters of any prison. (California Department of Corrections and ...

WYOMING COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – On September 9, 1971, 1300 incarcerated men had rebelled due to inhumane prison conditions, taking over the prison and holding 40 guards hostage. This week marks the ...

The full body tattoos, obnoxious screaming, and violent conflict resolution were foreign to me as a nerdy, upper-middle class kid with thin wire-frame glasses. Keeping my head down and ears open was ...

When a new addition to the Lancaster County Prison opened in 1991, it featured an electronic system for opening and closing secured doors, a single cell for each person, a library considered the ...

In the big hall at the Naivasha GK Prison, keen inmates sit in various groups listening to their ‘teachers’ as they go through various lessons. The teachers are fellow inmates. Due to lack of ...

CHARLOTTE — The man who shot and killed 16-year-old Jeremiah Nathaniel Woodard was sentenced to prison on Thursday after taking a plea deal. Jeremiah Nathaniel Woodard Jeremiah Nathaniel Woodard was ...

Blanchard was released from prison in December 2023 after serving eight years of her 10-year sentence Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...