A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the ...

Cinematic portrayals of inmates being thrown in a dingy, small, unlit cell with no running water and only a slit in the door for occasional food for years on end, is not the reality in New York state ...

Albay County Sheriff Craig Apple said the Legislature needs to reevaluate the solitary confinement law because it is making prisons more dangerous. The HALT legislation limits the amount of time that ...

"There's so many other steps that have to come after this for some action to really ... make us believe that it's true," a former prisoner said.

As title cards inform viewers at the start of the film, Pelican Bay State Prison ... fortress cell, in this massive institution designed to hold over a thousand people in solitary confinement ...

As title cards inform viewers at the start of the film, Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing ... concrete fortress cell, in this massive institution designed to hold over a thousand people in ...

Behind the walls of the SD State Penitentiary: Part I Trump signs executive order targeting transgender girls, women athletes US Marine Attempts the US Army Combat Fitness Test Trump announces ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Governor Larry Rhoden calls it “gothic” and studies have shown it’s outdated and unsafe. Photos show a view of the current state of the showers. For the first ...

Tour Guide Nick Gilette discusses some of the features of ESP, and how it was different than other prisons at the time. Tour Guide Nick Gilette discusses some of the features of Eastern State ...

A key difference Tuesday was the series of seven locked doors and layers of security that lawmakers had to pass through at the North Dakota State Penitentiary to conduct that hearing. The hearing on ...