In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

Shares of private prison companies have grown since the election. Those facilities could expand under Trump, despite claims ...

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there ...

President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail deported criminals from the United States. His prisons have earned him a ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

More than 2,200 people were detained after Venezuela’s July presidential election, when civil unrest broke out over Maduro’s ...

“Dragging a handcuffed Black man around the jail floor with a rope is inhumane and a vile abuse of power,” Alicia LeDuc ...

The purported purchaser would brandish a firearm, force the victim to hand over the luxury goods, and flee,” federal ...

Jalen Lasalle, 20, of Hartford, received a sentencing of 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, ...