Americans have been shocked by revelations of the abuse of Iraqi detainees at the hands of US troops. Politicians from the President on down have called the abuse -un-American- and -inconsistent with ...

For more than 40 years, the United States—a nation that putatively cherishes freedom—has had one of the largest prison systems in the world. Mass incarceration has been so persistent and pervasive ...

The first sweat lodge ceremony in a Maine prison happened May 18, 2007, at the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren. A year ...

States of all political stripes, including Oklahoma, North Dakota and Massachusetts, have sent officials to tour prisons in Germany in search of ways to improve conditions for American inmates. At ...

A federal judge on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment of an independent manager to fix rampant violence and persistent ...

John Oliver used this week's Last Week Tonight to look at a very popular trend in entertainment: America's fascination with prisons. With shows like Orange Is the New Black taking off in a major way, ...

As paralegals with the ACLU’s National Prison Project, we spend a lot of our time speaking to and corresponding with people in our nation’s prisons, jails, and detention centers, and their loved ones.

A report by Human Rights Watch and Central American rights group Cristosal alleges that dozens of Venezuelans deported from the US to a Salvadoran prison earlier this year were subjected to torture ...

Nearly 80 years after a devastating fire tore through a Japanese military prison during World War II, a Defense Department agency is working to identify American prisoners of war who died in the blaze ...