Explore the full history of prison systems, from ancient punishment methods to today’s complex correctional institutions.

The history of prison systems stretches from ancient dungeons and debtors jails to the vast institutions of today. Senate Republicans face a surprise new Fed dilemma Woman recalls '90s childhood ...

As students filed into Goldwin Smith Lewis Auditorium last Tuesday for GOVT 3141: Prisons, a different face than Prof. Mary Katzenstein, government, greeted them at the front of the room. Brian ...

“If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of ...

Roderick Gadson showed no remorse after beating a man to death. A new film, The Alabama Solution, shows how the case lays bare a culture of violence the state has long failed to control ...

A documentary chronicling Alabama’s notorious prison system has dropped on HBO. “The Alabama Solution” is a nearly two-hour look at the state’s maximum-security lockups, using footage from inside ...

Pairing a veteran police officer with a former inmate to crack down on crime seems the stuff of Hollywood — in fact, it was a winning formula when Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte teamed up in 48 Hours.

We have lived on opposite sides of prison bars. One of us spent 22 years incarcerated for a nonviolent drug offense. The other dedicated over 20 years of career service in maximum and medium security ...