Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

When journalist Peter Greste was languishing in a Cairo prison cell, he could little imagine that one day, Richard Roxburgh ...

A lockdown at the Collins Correctional Facility on Wednesday in Southern Erie County triggered a wave of current and former ...

SEOUL: Detained President Yoon Suk Yeol has been moved to a solitary cell at the Seoul Detention Center's general wing after he was placed under formal arrest over the weekend, a correctional official ...

Contraband in prison and the costs of enforcing the rules is costing the Bureau of Prisons millions. A better solution may be ...

Inside North Carolina prisons, 13 inmates killed themselves last year. Three more died in January. State officials say they ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador, where President Donald Trump claimed he would jail US citizens in a 'heartbeat', can hold 40,000.

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

Feb. 3, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. How California's Pelican Bay prison ignited a statewide hunger strike as a feat of unity by 30,000 incarcerated people.

Inmates allege abuses and unlivable conditions inside these prisons ... Outspoken inmates are locked in solitary confinement for years, but manage to still obtain cell phones and communicate ...