For six years, Honesty Jade Bishop was held in solitary confinement in a Missouri prison after she was sexually assaulted by her cellmate. The Department of Corrections deemed that Bishop, a ...

A Connecticut youth prison has agreed to eliminate use of isolation as a form of punishment as part of an agreement with the federal Justice Department, officials said. The Justice Department said ...

An inmate at the Blair County Prison, who is accused of killing a neighbor and living with the body, is facing new charges ...

DENVER (AP) – Colorado’s new Corrections Department director is promising to reform solitary confinement policies after spending the night in an isolated cell, an experiment he said left him “feeling ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — An American man recently sentenced by North Korea to six years of hard labor says he is digging in fields eight hours a day and being kept in isolation, but that so far ...

Former Real Madrid and AC Milan forward, Robinho has spoken publicly for the first time since beginning his prison sentence ...

When Nicolas Sarkozy was in charge of law and order in France, he saw nothing wrong with his country’s prisons being the ...

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, who was incarcerated on Tuesday after being convicted of ...

French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy began his five-year prison sentence on Tuesday, locked up in a nine-square-metre cell at ...

The final 200 pages of Navalny's 479-page book do, in some ways, have the characteristics of other prison diaries or of such classic Russian literature as Alexander Solzhenitsyn's “One Day in the Life ...