The Cognify project, a provocative idea that proposes a 'bar-less' prison model with inmates rehabilitated through prefabricated memories, sparks a debate on the ethical limits of using AI in ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Investigators have retrieved new evidence showing how prison inmates continue to smuggle narcotics, including now through books and magazines. John Melvin, Director of the Office ...

A federal lawsuit filed by an inmate advocacy group says a state policy preventing inmates from ordering publications is unconstitutional.

Erik Menendez's wife, Tammi Menendez, offered a rare glimpse into his life in prison at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional ...

The federal Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program, which allows state prisons to contract with private companies to provide inmate labor, stipulates that inmates must be paid the ...

Human rights campaigners on Thursday paid tribute to an Iranian activist who killed himself hours after warning he would do so if four inmates seen to be political prisoners were not freed.

A jazz concert in the halls of London's Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, features Spanish pianist Albert Marques and Keith LaMar, a death row prisoner joining from his cell ...

If there is no stay of execution, the CID Director gives the order for the inmate to be escorted from the holding cell into the execution chamber and strapped onto the gurney. A person who is ...

According to World Population Review, California’s prisoner’s recidivism rate is among the highest compared to other states.

BOISE, Idaho - An order has been given to stay the execution of Thomas Creech, who has been on death row since 1983 for the murders of five people. According to the Idaho Department of Corrections ...

The Draper Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Elmore, Ala. Work-release inmates often fear being sent back to the state’s medium- and high-security prisons.Credit...Audra Melton ...

Halprin, 47, was among the group of inmates known as the "Texas 7" who ... that religious bigotry has no place in our courts." The order for a new trial came after state District Judge Lela ...