There are more than 3,600 woman prisoners in England and Wales - a number the Ministry of Justice projects will rise to 4,200 by November 2027. But Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood believes “prison ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. The new high-security Agder prison is the latest addition to ...

Lauren-Brooke Eisen is the senior counsel and Inimai Chettiar is the director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law For the past year, President-elect Donald ...

Halden Prison focuses on rehabilitation, not punishment — and its 250 inmates have individual cells, access to activities like yoga and woodworking, and sweeping views of the nearby forest through ...

Inmates on the Gwinnett County, Georgia, work crew cut grass off Highway 124. (AP Photo / Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Johnny Crawford) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and ...

A women’s prison in California so plagued by sexual abuse that it was known among inmates and workers as the “rape club” will be closed, the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday ...

While the UK and much of the world struggles with overcrowded prisons, the Netherlands has the opposite problem. It is actually short of people to lock up. In the past few years 19 prisons have closed ...

In Chile’s oldest and most overcrowded prison, the inmates have found solace in the hundreds of stray cats. A cat on a prisoner’s back in Chile’s Santiago Sur prison.Credit...Cristobal Olivares for ...

When Monica Cosby, Tyteanna Williams and Celia Colon talk about the years they spent as inmates at women's prisons in Illinois, their stories often turn to the times they would be disciplined for what ...

Life in prison can challenge anyone, but it can be particularly hard for people whose bodies and minds are being whittled away by age. Prisons in the United States contain an ever growing number of ...