I am reaching out to bring to your attention serious allegations regarding unsafe conditions at High Desert State Prison. Families of inmates report that certain correctional officers have ...

Old prisons, such as San Quentin and Folsom, were originally designed to house one person per cell. In response to mass ...

Potentially volatile cellmates are a fact of life in California prisons. That may change as the state's incarcerated ...

On Oct. 27, the Nevada Department of Corrections reported that a man was stabbed to death at High Desert State Prison.

Five years after Nebraska lawmakers banned the prison system from placing seriously mentally ill inmates in restrictive ...

Policies that dictate what happens after a death behind bars often add new layers of pain — and financial and logistical ...

A coalition of immigrants’ rights groups have filed a lawsuit vying to halt the rapid expansion of California’s largest ICE ...

There’s something magnetic about abandoned places. Maybe it’s the silence where there used to be noise, or the way wooden ...

A 54-year-old inmate at High Desert State Prison died earlier this month, six days after he was transferred there from the Clark County Detention Center, according to a news release from the Nevada ...

Eddie Ruiz was convicted in the 2016 shooting death of David Moglen after a car stickup; last week Ruiz was detained after ...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York state prison guard was found guilty of murder Monday in the death of an inmate who was beaten while handcuffed, while two other guards were acquitted for their ...