Programming like Shakespeare in Prison has been found to significantly decrease recidivism rates according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The House and Senate approved a pair of bills to purchase the state's last private prison outright for $312 million.

Oklahoma Baptist University recently held a commencement ceremony for the first graduates of the school's Prison Divinity ...

This week two prisoners currently serving sentences in Rome’s Rebibbia prison obtained special permission to participate in ...

The program takes a rotating cohort of prisoners and teaches them everything about the industry: from its business to its science to its artistry. They've set up a professional studio and teaching ...

Joshua Phillips sat down with the Times-Union in an exclusive interview at Hardee Correctional Institution 10 years after ...

The Gianakos family is still struggling to prove one of the convicted ‘babysitter killers’ from 1997 innocent after more than two decades.

The dissident Iranian director, no longer under a travel ban from Tehran, returned to Cannes for the first time in two decades to present the competition film 'It Was Just An Accident.' ...

The letter was from Bessie Virginia Hope, a prison inmate at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women who is now 52 and serving life plus 20 years for stabbing to death with a fillet knife Joseph E.

Prison workers, members of the board of pardons ... Norton's faith has been a beacon of hope. "The love of God is suffocating in the prisons. … At the end of the day, if I didn't know this ...

Joe Exotic responds to President Trump's pardon of Todd and Julie Chrisley, claiming he's been 'left to die' in prison while ...

Erik and Lyle Menendez were resentenced on Tuesday to 50 years to life in prison, which makes them eligible for parole.