Every year millions of people cycle through America’s prisons and jails. Many of them never make it home. Incarcerated people die of medical neglect. They die because guards beat them or because they ...

The first wave of detentions in the new Syria came almost immediately – just after victorious rebels flung open the doors of Bashar al-Assad’s notorious prisons. As ordinary Syrians stormed detention ...

Activists rallied at the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Mich., after it reopened as an immigrant detention center this year. In its past, the facility had been a federal prison and a ...

Over the past year, journalists at The Marshall Project have persistently covered the many ways people are dying in prisons and jails across the United States. In our ongoing series, Dying Behind Bars ...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a Texas prison prompted an outcry from survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and some lawmakers. Since arriving in August, Maxwell has gushed to friends ...

New York State's Bedford Hills Correctional facility, Illinois' Pontiac Correctional Center and Albion Correctional Facility in New York State are the three U.S. prisons with the highest reported ...

Drones are an escalating security threat to prisons, officials tell ABC News. Two years ago, some health care professionals across the country began to receive calls from individuals they believed ...

Former "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" star Jen Shah was released from federal prison Wednesday, more than four years early from her 6½-year sentence, a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson ...

The Trump administration is escalating efforts to crack down on gangs that move illicit drugs into the United States, with deadly military strikes at sea and measures to toughen up borders taking ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Colorado prisons are violating the constitutional rights of the state’s adult inmates and youth ...

Over two decades, a minimum-security prison aimed at helping inmates prepare to leave prison was a point of civic pride. Now, state officials have converted it to ICE detention. Over two decades, a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. If you’re serving hard time inside a California prison, you’ll often find yourself stuck in a cramped cell with a ...