Some wings in the oldest portions of the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton date back nearly 200 years. The smallest cells, like the one pictured, measure four by seven feet. (Photo courtesy of New ...

The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the ...

The documentary premiered Friday night on HBO Max and shows a six-year look inside Alabama's notorious prison system.

An unlikely partnership between a former police officer and a former inmate is helping the Bureau of Prisons make America safe again.

A Fort Hood sergeant convicted in April of nearly 30 crimes — including rape, kidnapping, burglary and robbery — died in his prison cell on Friday. Sgt. Greville Clarke, 32, who was sentenced to 112 ...

Kohberger was convicted of murdering four University of Idaho students Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also published stories in ...

Prison cells once used at the California Institution for Men in Chino. (Photo courtesy of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) One of two men sentenced to prison for a La Jolla ...

“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 ...

The former president was convicted of conspiring to seek campaign funds from Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi and ordered to ...