Inmate deaths, a riot, fires, and stabbings led the US Department of Justice to investigate the Alvin S. Glenn Detention ...

After deaths, stabbings and lawsuits, the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center hopes that a major renovation can save the ...

A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology's ...

Several decades ago, after attending an inmate picnic at the Auburn Correctional Facility as a guest, I had some time to ...

The bare cell, no more than two metres across, had no bed or toilet. Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only ...

At the shout of "Allahu Akbar", the men inside the cell peered through a small opening in the centre of the heavy metal door. They saw rebels in the prison's corridor instead of guards.

It rained heavily the night before the retaking of New York's Attica Correctional Facility ... at California's New Folsom prison cornered him in his cell and kicked him in the ribs, torso ...

Located in the south of the country on the Malawa peninsula lies Surat Thani prison which poses significantly greater dangers. The conditions here are much harsher than those in Koh Samui ...

More than 500 men are inside, some held in locked cells 18 hours a day ... years in New York state prisons – including Attica Correctional Facility – after being convicted of manslaughter ...

The inmate, 43-year-old Robert Brooks, was pronounced dead on 10 December, the day after the incident took place at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Following an internal ...