The world spends hundreds of billions yearly to punish offenders, with little return beyond more crime and less hope. DW examines how private contractors, organized crime gangs and inmates exploit ...

Prison bars that were once used as instruments of confinement at the Cook County Jail will be repurposed as musical instruments as part of a performance Wednesday by Chicago-based artist Maria Gaspar.

It’s a sight you normally don’t see in a prison — inmates and visitors walking a red carpet, happily posing for photos that aren’t mug shots. That was the scene last week at Marin County’s San Quentin ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - It’s cheesecake-making time at Epicure restaurant in Millbrook. Nobody’s happier to be here than chef-in-training Jeremy Sales. He’s currently an inmate at the Frank Lee ...

Prison bars illustration by Rawf8 via iStock for WMNF News. The tampons were stacked and bound together with a rubber band. The incarcerated people at the Patrick O’Daniel Unit — a women’s prison in ...

MCLOUD, Okla. (KFOR) – A now former inmate at the Mable Bassett Correctional Center in Oklahoma took home something special after she was released from prison. She spent half of her life behind bars, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. People in prison get “three hots and a cot,” ...

We have lived on opposite sides of prison bars. One of us spent 22 years incarcerated for a nonviolent drug offense. The other dedicated over 20 years of career service in maximum and medium security ...