Anti-government protesters play traditional music and dance as they take part in a march demanding the release of political prisoners in Managua, Nicaragua, on August 15th, 2018.
While most commerce within prisons revolves around food and hygiene products, a recent report found that digital sales are the "future of commissary."
Prisons and jails charge inmates substantial portions of their annual wages for basic necessities.
Facing a shortage of space for inmates, Missouri's Greene County Jail opted to build an insta-prison in the parking lot. Is that OK?
It's hard work and poorly paid, but at least it's a little more visible.
New research finds a racial disparity.
To be successful, re-entry programs must work to facilitate more interaction between former inmates and potential role models in their new neighborhoods.
Why doesn’t the Environmental Protection Agency count incarcerated populations in its impact statements?
They'll stay out of trouble longer, a new study suggests.
Advocates argue that early release is the most compassionate and cost-effective solution.
Offenders with brain injuries make up a huge percentage of prison populations; they also enter the criminal justice system earlier, and stay in it longer.
Cory Booker and Rand Paul’s REDEEM Act.
And what Attorney General Eric Holder missed in his recent speech on, among other things, the disproportionate burden of voter disenfranchisement of felons felt by minorities.
A new longitudinal study of incarcerated felons produces a nuanced answer.
The belief we’re better than the average person holds true even for convicts.
Abuse continues, and oversight is getting harder.
Leaders say the strike is “suspended” after the promise of public hearings.
Incarcerated men say that money troubles put them in prison—and avoiding money troubles will keep them out.
Will we soon see video cameras on the shoulder of every cop and corrections officer? Or will the high cost to both budgets and, potentially, individual privacy be enough to stop their adoption nationwide?
On Day 43, a judge approved a request to force-feed striking inmates.
Here are their five demands.
Aging prisoners serving long sentences are filling overcrowded lockups across the nation. Colorado prison officials hope a new program will help let some of these old guys get out — and stay out.
In this Miller-McCune Q&A, Los Angeles County's top cop Lee Baca explains why he wants to offer an education to tens of thousands of prisoners.
With a quarter of the world's prisoners in American lockups, an unlikely coalition ranging from the NAACP to Americans for Tax Reform wonders if we might be smarter to divert some of that prison money to schools.