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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 ...

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 Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments conducted, still discussed in classrooms and pop culture more than half a century on. But ...

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.

A prison outside Las Vegas will become Nevada’s new maximum-security facility, with the state’s highest-risk offenders being transferred there from the prison in Ely in eastern Nevada that currently ...

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 ...

The Nevada Department of Corrections have identified two of the inmates killed in a deadly prison altercation on Tuesday. The incident at Ely State Prison, the only maximum-security prison in the ...

John Hitchcock graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in film studies and previously wrote on his own blog. He also specializes in nature and virtual photography and does art in Source ...

A LOCAL FEDERAL PRISON UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. AND THAT INVESTIGATION REVEALED CRIMES COMMITTED BY INMATES AND OFFICERS. WESH MICHELLE MEREDITH LOOKS AT THE STUNNING VIOLENCE ...

The Federal Communications Commission today voted to lower price caps on prison phone calls and closed a loophole that allowed prison telecoms to charge high rates for intrastate calls. Today’s vote ...