Over 10 years, the reasons for the killings are often the same: Severe understaffing, lax oversight and gang violence.

We need your help, and we need it now,” the leader of the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction told lawmakers.

After roughly a year in jail, Sean “Diddy” Combs received his prison sentence. Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced Combs to 50 months in prison. Combs’ lawyers have criticized this ruling. The attorney ...

A system designed to protect state inmates who wish to leave gangs has backfired, leading to increased violence fueled by ...

A Federal Communications Commission proposal to let state and local prisons jam contraband cell phones has support from ...

I was one of the researchers in the well-known Stanford prison experiment in 1971, demonstrating the destructive dynamics that are generated when one group of people — randomly assigned as “guards” — ...