James Eagan Holmes, the perpetrator of the 2012 movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, received one of the most complex and lengthy sentences ever delivered in the U.S. His punishment included 12 ...

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Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

Nearly 30 years after his father left the top job at the Cambria County Prison, Kurt Wolford took over as warden. He is now ...

Indigenous men have the highest rates of recidivism of any group in Canada. Healing lodges are meant to help break this cycle. Men who go through them are half as likely to end up back in jail ...

A soldier stand guard outside Compen prison in Montevideo on November 21, 2019. Photo by Pablo Porciuncula Brune/AFP via Getty Images. It’s past midnight on September 6, 1971. Across the prison, ...

Journalist Maurice Chammah says art and music programs help us understand "there's more to say about [a prisoner] than their crime." Chammah is... The rich history of music in prisons shows how ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The maximum-security prison where two killers pulled off a “Shawshank Redemption”-style escape has a reputation for brutality that belies the reform-minded ideals it was founded ...