Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán, 68, has been serving his life sentence since 2019 at the United States Penitentiary, ...

A new report from Solitary Watch details systemic abuse in New York prisons, citing physical violence, deprivation of basic ...

Reginald Betts was in solitary confinement at 17 when a book changed his life. His nonprofit now installs libraries in ...

Portuguese filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias spoke at IDFA about how she set out to interrogate the repressive methods of her country’s fascist regime.

Under scrutiny over prison deaths and living conditions, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections has received recommendations ...

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Trump is seeing red over Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdanis plan to tax “richer and whiter” ...

As its latest defense in an ongoing court battle, New York’s state prison agency is arguing that the core of a landmark solitary confinement reform law does not apply to the vast majority of the ...

First chartered deportation flight to Tehran carried Christian converts, a critic of Islam, and ethnic minorities; one ...

A correspondent for Reuters, he became a global symbol of China’s isolation and of the anti-foreigner hysteria spawned by its Cultural Revolution.

GALESBURG, Ill. (KWQC) - Changes could be coming to the Mary Davis Home, according to a recent court filing. For the last year, the ACLU of Illinois has battled in court for changes at the Mary Davis ...

OTTAWA — Sen. Kim Pate has been fighting against prisons' use of solitary confinement since 2018, when the federal government committed to curbing the practice. She told The Canadian Press the ...

On December 22, 2022, 51-year-old Lamont Mealy was found guilty of the first-degree murder of his roommate and was sentenced to serve life in prison at the Western Correctional Institution in ...