“Tough on Crime” lawmakers instituted “three strikes” rules in cities around the country to lock people away for life. The theory goes that someone who’s committed a crime not once, not twice, but ...

100 Years Ago: A "daring burglar aided and abetted by a motor truck ... did away with about 90 gallons of lubricating oil and ...

House Democrats told the attorney general that more than a dozen whistle-blowers had come forward with reports of Ghislaine Maxwell receiving perks in prison. By Michael Gold Reporting from the ...

SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Chile's far-right President-elect José Antonio Kast visited El Salvador's mega-prison for accused gang members on Friday ahead of a meeting with President Nayib Bukele to discuss ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – A group of Brazilian women behind bars applied makeup, donned gowns and competed in a singing contest held on Friday in a Rio de Janeiro prison, during an event designed to spotlight ...

This story contains descriptions of self-harm. The New Jersey Department of Corrections tracks violence against its own staff the way other agencies track potholes or snow days: with annual targets.

The repression of the Maduro regime over more than a decade forced eight million Venezuelans to flee, nearly a million of them to the United States. Last year, as part of the biggest U.S. immigration ...