I HAVE BEEN IN PRISON for more than 30 years. When I came to prison, the corrections goal was isolation, retribution, and punishment. In the past decade, the mission changed to rehabilitation. I have ...

It was the Fourth of July, and I was in my Sing Sing cell, sweating in the heat, perched on the edge of my bunk with my feet dunked in a bucket of cold sink water. What really had me burning, though, ...

On stifling days last summer, Reyes Miranda baked in his cell, the metal walls so hot to the touch that he worried he’d burn himself. At night, he slept on the cool concrete floor for relief. Miranda ...

If you’re serving hard time inside a California prison, you’ll often find yourself stuck in a cramped cell with a complete stranger. You hang a bedsheet to manufacture the semblance of privacy between ...

Prison in southeast Estonia has hundreds of empty cells Sweden is among countries experiencing prison overcrowding Officials are negotiating terms of prisoner transfer TARTU, Estonia, July 30 (Reuters ...

After years of complaints about hot temperatures inside prison cells, California is finally embarking on a plan to cool some cells. But it’s only a test, and it will only help a fraction of inmates.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As climate change exacerbates the risks of extreme heat across California, the state’s prison officials plan to embark ...

STOCKHOLM, June 4 (Reuters) - Sweden will send up to 600 criminals to serve their sentences in an Estonian prison under an agreement announced by the government on Wednesday aimed at reducing pressure ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dario Sabaghi covers the cannabis industry with a focus on Europe. A German court has ruled that prisoners who possess up to 50 ...

Tens of thousands of Syrians were thrown into Sednaya during the Assad regime. The New York Times created a 3-D model of the prison. By Christina Goldbaum, Charlie Smart, Helmuth Rosales, Anjali ...