My understanding of life in prison comes purely from the big screen — movies like The Shawshank Redemption or the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. I am very thankful that this is the ...

I spent more hours than I can count meeting with teenage clients in the dingy visiting room at the Oak Hill Youth Center, Washington’s youth prison. Infested with rats, roaches and even snakes ...

Thousands of prisoners in the eastern Democratic Republic Congo (DRC) city of Goma escaped in a mass jail break on Monday as Rwanda-backed rebels said they had captured the strategic city.

IN BURLINGTON, JACKSON STOEVER NBC 5 NEWS. MORE STAFF AT A NORTHERN NEW YORK PRISON ARE RECOVERING TONIGHT AFTER áANOTHER INMATE AND SEVERAL STAFF MEMBERS WERE SENT TO THE HOSPITAL OVER THE WEEKEND.

Originally, two prisoners - who were being held at Israel's Ktzi'ot Prison - refused to be released as part of the deal with Hamas. However, one was ultimately persuaded and returned to Gaza ...

Rocky Balboa holds a special place in the hearts of every American, especially for someone from Philadelphia. The pop culture icon hails from the same neighborhood as the Eagles, who are set to face ...

The public philosopher on open relationships, free speech and why protests fail. By Pippa Bailey In the acknowledgements at the end of her new book, Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard writes ...

University of California, Santa Barbara provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is ...

Upward of 95% of incarcerated people will eventually leave prison, either on parole or because they’ve completed their sentence. And the older they are when released, the harder it can be to ...

Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's Crito and Phaedo, his accounts of the last days of Socrates in prison in 399 BC as he waited to be executed by drinking hemlock. Both works show ...