New Zealand's first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four-roomed log building, built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay ...

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

The Justice-Impacted Writers Project. a fellowship for incarcerated aspiring writers, is spearheaded by writers Sammy ...

The president's announcement also comes less than two weeks after he commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi has called for establishing new prison complexes in Rahim Yar Khan and Lahore while reiterating his commitment to finalize recommendations of all provincial ...

Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the fall of the Assad regime. Sky News' lead world presenter ...

Speaking exclusively to CNN while on a three-week medical release from prison, Mohammadi said, “Not even the prison walls and all these convictions can ever stop me.” Mohammadi has spent most ...

This holiday season, PJP editors asked formerly incarcerated writers how the holidays have changed for them since they left prison. Read the other perspectives here. This Thanksgiving marked one year ...

In a staggering settlement, the federal government will pay $116 million to more than 100 women who said they were sexually abused by employees at a now-shuttered federal prison in Dublin ...

A California man was sentenced to more than three years in prison after being found guilty of running a “birth tourism” business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. in order ...

The first transgender woman to be removed from women’s housing in a Washington state prison filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging that the state Department of Corrections’ decision to forcibly place ...

The father and stepmother of a severely abused 10-year-old girl found dead in her home in England were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for murder. Urfan Sharif, 42, and Beinash Batool ...