Much of how we think about prison building is clouded by the legacy of racism and economic exploitation endemic to the U.S. criminal justice system.

Bentham's Panopticon or Inspection House was a circular building, in which prisoners' cells were to occupy the circumference and keepers the centre, with an intermediate annular wall all the way ...

Don Hudson, a prison system employee who has compiled a history of the Central Unit, said the big brick building was known as Two Camp and was in operation from 1939 until it closed in 1969 ...

Florida needs to spend at least $2.2 billion on repairs, retrofits and staffing to address “‘immediate” needs in the state prison system, according to a new report.

Under the legislation the governor signed into law Friday, the state will build a 4,000-bed specialized care prison in Elmore County with space for medical and mental health services and a 4,000 ...

Plans to build 20,000 extra prison spaces to cope with overcrowding have been plunged into doubt following the collapse of a major construction company involved in the project. ISG, which held ...

Honduras is taking aggressive steps to reform its prison system, building two modern mega-prisons and pardoning petty criminals who have already served half their sentence. But with no accompanying ...

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has cut almost £700m from its budget for building new prisons and renovating old ones to pay for extra staff and meet pay demands, it can be revealed. The disclosure ...

The prison boom While much has been written about mass incarceration , less is known about the prison building boom and the role it plays in slowing reform of the criminal justice system.