While Keri Blakinger was incarcerated, she papered her cell walls with pictures her romantic partner drew for her. “I was dating someone who liked drawing things instead of using words, and having ...

Prisons, in general, are for people sentenced for more serious crimes. The sentences are usually longer, and can be up to life. Prison inmates can also be civilly committed for addiction or treatment, ...

As a child growing up in Pueblo, Colorado, Jeremy Laintz travelled widely with his father, an aeronautics engineer at Lockheed Martin, who sometimes took his four kids along on business trips. Family ...

Lauren Johnson walked into the aging Travis County jail just outside Austin on a sunny Friday in July 2018 and steeled herself. Every time she passed through the door and the smell hit her, it all ...

EAST BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, a squat brick building with low-slung ceilings and walls sometimes smeared with feces, is the face of a paradigm shift: ...

Rates of PTSD among incarcerated people are five times higher than the general US adult population. Depression has been shown to worsen while incarcerated, but frequent visits from family may help.

“It’s a new breed of inmate in here,” 47-year-old convict Zuri Wilson says of San Francisco’s jails. “They don’t respect anything. They are mentally unwell. Most of them are drug addicts. It’s total ...

In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice. Ruth Wilson GilmoreCredit...Dana Scruggs for The New York ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The imprisoned kingpin whose cartel controls most of Chicago's illicit drugs, according to law enforcement, has sent a letter from his jail cell obtained by the I-Team. El Chapo is ...

Unless we know and love someone in prison or work at one, it’s likely that most of us aren’t thinking about the day-to-day lives of the incarcerated — much less how they find entertainment and keep up ...