Together, they reveal how a global vision of mass incarceration is spreading, one cellblock at a time. These facilities ...

PEN America has launched the Incarcerated Writers Bureau, a digital platform to provide professional and creative ...

Arkansas hasn't done an on-site cultural survey of the land where a proposed new prison in Franklin County would be located, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Writers in U.S. prisons will have a new path to getting their work seen through a website managed by PEN America that includes information on publishers, agents, journalists and other ...

President Bernardo Arévalo called an overhaul of his country’s prison system an “absolute priority” after 20 inmates accused of belonging to the Barrio 18 group were found to have escaped undetected.

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 ...

Tomorrow (December 3), a Richmond author will release a collection of essays that tell the story of mass incarceration from ...

J. B. Nicholas runs a news website called The Free Lance from his home in upstate New York, and, near the end of last year, he started obsessively tracking one story: a man confined at a state prison ...

Ghislaine Maxwell has been mockingly christened “Mary Poppins” by fellow inmates at her cushy new prison due to her cut-glass accent and bizarre obsession with carrying an umbrella. Cons at Federal ...

“You are not provided any joy, any stimulation—you got to find that yourself… I didn’t understand what weeks and months of silence can do to someone’s psyche. That can tear people apart if you’re not ...