Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years, marking a golden moment in history. On this day in 1979, ...

James Davis Jr. reportedly tied to smuggle the contraband into the Larry Gist State Jail using a food container.

What began as a light-hearted kitchen moment ended in heartbreak, as a father faces the consequences of a night that changed everything for his family.

Steady hiring and a mostly-healthy job market suggest that there is less of an urgent need for the Fed to reduce borrowing ...

Some of the best movies, like ‘The Shawshank Redemption‘ and TV shows like ‘Prison Break’ have been set up in prisons, and the whole prison scenario adds great value to these. Watching a heroic, ...

Juan (Diego Calva) is a human rights lawyer, working hard for his clients and with a heavily pregnant wife at home. Visiting an overcrowded prison to meet with a prisoner he’s set to defend in an ...

Every month, I comb through Netflix’s slate of new movies and TV shows and in February, I was greeted with a surprise: “Prison Cell 211.” To anybody who has seen the excellent 2009 movie ...

First things first, “Prison Cell 211” is often a brutal watch. But the violence isn’t gratuitous and instead serves a narrative purpose. The violent moments make it very clear just how ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

The incarceration rate of Black Americans has fallen sharply in the 21st century, according to a new study, but the trend has ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in ...

Renard Winfield was sentenced to life in prison on Friday and was ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution to the children of ...