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Governments are building massive facilities to contain a growing inmate population, but the strategy could backfire.

VALPARAISO, Chile (AP) — At first, the tackles, rucks and mauls were merely survival tactics within the harsh world of prison. But what began as a workshop behind barbed wire has transcended the walls ...

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A plan to close Stillwater prison caught many people by surprise, including lawmakers who ultimately voted to do that as part of last year’s budget negotiations. So far, the plan to close the ...

An extraordinary postcard arrived in November 1878, addressed to Samuel Emery Chamberlain, the warden of the new Concord state prison, which had opened earlier that year next to rail lines in the ...

The 45 strips of paper laced with a synthetic cannabinoid that a Department of Correction officer allegedly smuggled into a medium-security prison in Shirley had a black market value of $528,000 ...

A gang smuggled drugs, phones and other contraband into HMP Lewes by throwing packages over the walls. Jay Lindo, 31, of Wells Park Road in London and Fatimaalzhra Yousif, 23, were found guilty of ...

Incarcerated participants Taquan (left) and Heath (right) tend to plants in the garden at the California Health Care Facility, a prison in Stockton, California. (TJ Ushing / UC Davis) A kestrel swoops ...

CRANSTON – For 26 years, the walls of the Adult Correctional Institutions made for Steven Parkhurst's home. Last week, Parkhurst returned to pay it forward, in a sense, to the men who helped shape him ...