Four sheriff’s deputies at Men’s Central Jail were attacked Sunday by a group of inmates armed with a shank, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials and two sources ...
Privatization of prison food isn’t a new phenomenon, but it’s growing substantially. According to one market analysis, the industry was worth almost $3.2 billion in 2022 in the United States alone, ...
South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been released from prison a day after a court cancelled his arrest warrant. Footage aired on local TV channels showed Yoon leaving prison on ...
After the Civil War, states—especially in the South—built a network of laws to criminalize formerly enslaved people and created a system of prison labor that sent almost entirely Black men and women ...
On March 4, he was sentenced by the High Court to a jail term of 14 years, three months and eight weeks, and 12 strokes of the cane. The man is believed to be the first person convicted of raping ...
The result is a tightly packed, thought-provoking crime thriller featuring characters less concerned with busting out of prison than they are with breaking free of themselves. In Inside ...
Kornfeld is the author of Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America, a study of the art created behind bars and the ways in which it reflects the inner lives of its makers. The book, published by ...
Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, raised concerns about the treatment of the detainees, citing a letter from an unnamed prison employee who described conditions at the federal lockup in Los Angeles ...
In jail since 2023, he has been facing several court cases charging him with offenses ranging from corruption to misuse of power. He denies the accusations. As we settle into 2025, I reflect on ...
A pungent smell of detergent and rotten food hits me as we walk through this enormous high-security prison. Inmates press themselves up against the bars to look at us. There are no smiles ...
Lucknow: The state's 76th jail, with a capacity to lodge over 500 inmates, came up in Shravasti on Wednesday. Until now, those arrested in Shravasti and sent to judicial remand had to be lodged at ...