Psychiatric hospitalization in America is traditionally done in a highly restricted setting. Are these practices ...

Some governments, the U.S. included, rely on private corporations to run prison systems, partly to save money and partly because the prison population keeps growing and available space is lacking.

My roommate and I walked inside our dorm room and were greeted by a breeze. Our almost half-empty tiny room—built as a single ...

What’s in store for the old Montgomery County-Airy Street Prison? An answer on that wasn’t immediately revealed by county ...

“The state has said it could take five years to fix the fence, and the temporary solution is just to pull another officer out ...

A three-year renewal grant from the Mellon Foundation provides additional funding to support a degree-granting partnership ...

Lenoir was initially placed in F House, the prison’s infamous roundhouse, or panopticon. Critics of that building’s design — ...

In the graphic design studio, quietly spoken Fredrik ... Hans-Jorgen Brucker walks me around the training prison on campus, which is kitted out with reproduction cells and prison-style furniture.

Since that series, a Texas man who was the focus of one story was released from prison. And in California, a woman who was the subject of another story had her sentence commuted. Shapiro joined ...

The second part of the scheme comes as the government announced a review of sentencing, chaired by former justice secretary David Gauke, which will explore tougher punishments outside prison and ...

Hinton is only the second person to win both a Nobel and Turing. The first, Turing-winning political scientist Herbert Simon, ...

A Santa Monica College worker is hospitalized after being shot at the college's Center for Media and Design satellite facility Monday night.