Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, over 20 percent of the world's prisoners. Of those, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary ...

Prisons are using virtual reality to help inmates cope with loneliness in solitary confinement. VR technology provides ...

Kevin Corcoran, Assistant Commissioner for Corrective Services said ... Escapes from maximum security prisons are rare. To keep that record, new prisons keep inmates inside with multiple secure ...

The Indiana Department of Correction (DOC) offered a new but tiny glimpse into Indiana’s efforts to resume executions, ...

The Guardian recently detailed how the program is working at Corcoran State Prison, where incarcerated people are plucked from 6ft by 11ft cells — where some had been for weeks — and chained ...