The Peruvian government is planning to expand the country’s prison system to address overcrowding and organized crime. But one of the facilities it wants to build poses serious risks to marine ...

A sprawling complex of ultra-high-security labs, the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness sits right at the border ...

The latest Stephen King tale to receive the big-screen treatment is none other than The Long Walk. Published in 1979 under ...

Belarus freed 52 prisoners including an EU employee on Thursday after an appeal from U.S. PresidentDonald Trump, as ...

It’s a place history almost forgot - a facility where torture was routine and suffering was endless. This documentary exposes the dark past of one of the most brutal prisons the world has rarely heard ...

At the core of any transformation is brutal honesty. Most of us are in denial—about our pain, our patterns, our past. We bury ...

In the past five years, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has become Latin America’s most celebrated authoritarian. He has ...

The 68-year-old filmmaker directed two short films for Michael Jackson's most controversial song, "They Don't Care About Us." ...

In cooperation with gangs and with massive popular support, Nayib Bukele is cracking down on dissidents and massively ...

Nearly half of U.S. adults have experienced a close family member being in jail or prison, and 1 in 14 children have lost a ...

Mass incarceration in the United States has resulted in African Americans being incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites, and the imprisonment rate for African American women is twice that ...

From policy to personal cost, what solitary confinement reveals about who we are, what we value, and the change still within ...