The historic Meiji-era landmark will become the Nara Prison Museum and Japan’s first luxury prison hotel under Hoshinoya ...

Recidivism reveals a gap between punishment and rehabilitation. Psychology explains why incarceration alone rarely transforms ...

Prison Break is leaving Netflix on January 30, giving fans limited time to binge all five seasons before the classic series ...

Leslie Harris has missed most milestones in his daughter's life while serving a decades-long sentence in Louisiana for armed robbery and is unlikely to get out before her prom, her graduation and ...

A new study calls attention to the health-care needs of people who are unhoused or formerly incarcerated. A North Dakota ...

Because they make up what Justice Anthony Kennedy years ago called a “hidden world of punishment,” what goes on inside these ...

The disgraced media mogul was sentenced to 50 months in prison in October after being convicted on prostitution-related charges Paras Griffin/Getty Sean 'Diddy' Combs was convicted on two counts of ...

Two French prisoners escaped from jail after sawing through the bars of their cells and using bedsheets to get out of the facility, a prosecutor said Thursday. Guards noticed the break-out shortly ...

Prison walls have contained some of history’s most creative minds. And while incarceration is meant to be punishment, it’s also given writers something pretty valuable: time. Lots and lots of time.

Haitham Salem spent 11 months held by Israel without charge and said he endured beatings and abuse. He was released as part ...

The restaurant initiative began more recently with a diverse representation from a group of some 80 men who live in one ...