Mr. Sittenfeld is a freelance writer working on a memoir. On my second day into my 16-month sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Ky., I surprised myself by doing something that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado Department of Corrections officials forced inmates to work prison jobs through coercion that ultimately amounted to involuntary servitude, a Denver ...

The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office recommended closing the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad to help California reduce its corrections spending. Andrew Kuhn akuhn@mercedsun-star.com ...

A screenshot of a video of a protest in Canaleta prison, in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. UNPACU, José Daniel Ferrer. Unprecedented videos coming out of a high-security prison in Cuba have shown, possibly for ...

A federal judge ordered a takeover of Arizona's prison health care due to unconstitutional conditions. The ruling follows a 2012 lawsuit and the state's failure to comply with an injunction for major ...

PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania man who spent 43 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned — only to be taken straight into immigration custody — was denied bail Tuesday while he ...

EXCLUSIVE: This was the kind of prison break officials say could have changed the region, and perhaps even the world, overnight. Nearly 6,000 ISIS detainees, described by a senior U.S. intelligence ...

Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday unveiled a new transformation at the infamous San Quentin prison in the San Francisco Bay Area. The San Quentin Learning Center, an education and job training center to ...

Four inmates at a Southern Nevada prison died in the span of a week while another inmate at a Northern Nevada prison also died, state corrections officials announced Friday. In separate news releases ...

Officials with the Alaska Department of Corrections told lawmakers a “large fight” with a hefty price tag broke out at the state’s maximum security prison in January, amid downsizing and cost-cutting ...

America’s Kurdish allies oversaw two dozen sites holding thousands of members of the terrorist group and their families. Their withdrawal has left the system in chaos. America’s Kurdish allies oversaw ...

Sarah Pender was convicted in 2002 and six years later, she went on the run Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...