Dawson, also known as Abdul Salim, was freed from SCI Smithfield in Huntingdon County after a successful petition under the ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the 62-year-old British socialite convicted of trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein, was moved to Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum-security facility in Texas, earlier ...

Harvey Weinstein sat down with conservative political commentator Candace Owens for a tell-all interview on-camera from prison, in which the defamed producer maintains his innocence and rebuffs the ...

Men deported by the United States to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison are living in “the same” conditions as convicted gangsters, prison director Belarmino García said on Tuesday, during an ...

The Colman Domingo-starring Sing Sing is the latest installment in Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series that highlights the script behind this year’s most-talked about movies in awards season. The ...

Today’s prisons often resemble medieval “oubliettes”, in which offenders are locked up to punish them for their actions and to protect society. Research shows this approach can worsen, rather than ...

In many prisons, gangs dominate internal life. Often, they operate under strict codes of conduct and foster a culture of fear. Despite constant pressure from the prison staff, gangs continue to thrive ...

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of prison ...

Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm gave an update Wednesday on construction of the $1.25 billion, 4,000-bed prison in Elmore County. Hamm said the prison is about 40% complete.

BARTLETT, Texas (KWTX) - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is preparing to reopen the Bartlett prison facility as the state’s first ‘Innovation’ Unit, promising inmates a future in the ...

Prison is a scary place. Even in the movies, it's the kind of place that is impossible to romanticize, and Hollywood can do that with a lot of other terrible places. Prisons are also a place where ...