Kamiali Abdulsalam, Kami for short, has already been in the kitchen for several hours baking a batch of 100 sugar cookies ...

CBS said it shelved the segment on the notorious Salvadoran CECOT prison because it "needed additional reporting." ...

Johnny Valenciano has been incarcerated since he was 18 years old. Now 32, he spent the better part of that time in the state’s highest security prison: the Idaho Maximum Security Institution. For six ...

KELOLAND News is learning about a number of charges in connection with crimes behind South Dakota prison walls. Cole Waters, ...

At Stillwater, corrections officials are testing an “earned living unit” that trades privileges for accountability and has gone two months without a lockdown.

Opening Shot: Two police detectives enter a prison ward and show their IDs. They’re greeted by corrections officers already bringing someone out in a body bag. The Gist: Four weeks earlier, Barry ...

DEER LODGE, Mont. — The Montana State prison in Deer Lodge, houses over 1,600 inmates. NBC Montana got an inside look at the facility — and what’s being done to address overcrowding, and to find out ...

Maria Montalvo speaks with emotion, her eyes shining as she recounts her reading experiences. She says she especially enjoys books by Isabel Allende, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Erika L. Sánchez ...

No hoodies or sweatpants. No jewelry except wedding or engagement rings and small stud earrings. No phones. No pencils or blue pens — only black ink pens. The list of dos and don’ts to enter the ...

Thirty years ago Shawn England made a decision that would cost him his life. Growing up in Fort Pierce, Florida, England was a self-described narcissist. “I was the only one that mattered, I thought ...

For nearly 3 years, author R.G. Shore was incarcerated in a predominantly white and also racially divisive prison in the Pacific Northwest. During that time, Shore learned to meditate and create a ...