Stillwater facility’s proposed closing prompts a look at the architectural significance of correctional centers in Minnesota.

Nearly a decade ago, New Orleans officials hailed their new jail as a harbinger of change.

The site was used as military barracks and various internment camps before being converted into a prison, officials said.

Trump’s immigration crackdown, his extrajudicial disappearances of students based on their beliefs, and his invocation of the ...

When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have ...

Nayib Bukele rose to near-total control of El Salvador on a tide of support from the very gang he’s credited with defeating.

As North Carolina officials look to reduce their use of solitary confinement, several mentally ill inmates have killed ...

Dick Marek, president of the Historical Society of Windham County, said displays are on a continuum from the Abenaki to forts from the early settlers to farms and factories. The latest history in the ...

The latest pardons by President Donald Trump are another example of him flexing his power to bestow clemency on political ...

A proposed 3.5% tax on remittances from the United States could cost some Latin American countries up to half a percentage ...

A South African mother who sold her six-year-old daughter got life in prison Thursday for kidnapping and trafficking the girl ...

In story after story, interview after interview, PennLive’s Joshua Vaughn documents what can only be described as a callous ...