The Healthy Prisons, Healthy Communities initiative is promoting the use of nutritious food to reduce violence, protect ...

In a high-stress prison environment, a nutrient-starved brain translates directly into shorter fuses and reactive violence.

Americans have been shocked by revelations of the abuse of Iraqi detainees at the hands of US troops. Politicians from the President on down have called the abuse -un-American- and -inconsistent with ...

Over the span of a single week at the end of March, a Michigan prisoner was found dead inside his cell in what authorities are investigating as a homicide, two inmates died inside New York City’s ...

Federal Prisons, and state prisons across the country, are suffering from a lack of workers to fill these important jobs. What will it take to change it. The staffing crisis in American prisons did ...

Brendan Carr, the F.C.C. chairman, cited security concerns in rolling back most of the lower costs he voted for last year. By Ben Blatt Most inmates in American prisons now have a personal tablet ...

Former congressman George Santos (R-New York), who served 84 days in federal prison before receiving a presidential commutation on Friday, says he knows what he wants to do with his life now that he ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island and the Roger Williams University School of Law Prisoners’ Rights Clinic are joining once again to challenge policies restricting Native American ...

Read on to learn a bit about eight historic American prisons, all open to some extent to the public, and each with its story of notorious inmates, murder and mayhem. Most of these slammers offer tours ...