Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration says it's recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp ...

Contraband in prison and the costs of enforcing the rules is costing the Bureau of Prisons millions. A better solution may be pushing more people into community custody.

Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan ...

Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable ...

President Trump’s stated plan to detain 30,000 migrants at the naval base brings a little-known history back into the spotlight: When the U.S. held Haitian asylum seekers there starting in the early ...

Incarcerated firefighters play a crucial role in a state where wildfires seemingly get worse every year. But the state’s ...

President Donald Trump signs executive order for mass deportation to ensue, while dissolving previous ban on private prisons.

As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are ...

A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

A federal jury convicted him in October of scheming to conceal his involvement three decades ago in the persecution of Serb prisoners at the Celebici prison camp in Bosnia. Mrndzic also made false ...

when in fact he persecuted ethnic Serbs at a notorious prison camp. Kemal Mrndzic, 52, was sentenced in a Boston federal court on Wednesday. A federal jury convicted him in October of scheming to ...