I HAVE BEEN IN PRISON for more than 30 years. When I came to prison, the corrections goal was isolation, retribution, and punishment. In the past decade, the mission changed to rehabilitation. I have ...

It was the Fourth of July, and I was in my Sing Sing cell, sweating in the heat, perched on the edge of my bunk with my feet dunked in a bucket of cold sink water. What really had me burning, though, ...

On stifling days last summer, Reyes Miranda baked in his cell, the metal walls so hot to the touch that he worried he’d burn himself. At night, he slept on the cool concrete floor for relief. Miranda ...

If you’re serving hard time inside a California prison, you’ll often find yourself stuck in a cramped cell with a complete stranger. You hang a bedsheet to manufacture the semblance of privacy between ...

In a unique alliance, prisoners at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and California district attorneys are championing legislation to reform California's prison system by introducing a pilot program ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden will send up to 600 criminals to serve their sentences in an Estonian prison under an agreement announced by the government on Wednesday aimed at reducing pressure on the ...

South Dakota’s had a particularly challenging year. The state has logged eight suspected or confirmed overdose deaths in 2025 ...

Prison in southeast Estonia has hundreds of empty cells Sweden is among countries experiencing prison overcrowding Officials are negotiating terms of prisoner transfer TARTU, Estonia, July 30 (Reuters ...

This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons. Text messages and a video from a prisoner inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary have raised questions about ...