When people are found guilty of committing a crime, a judge will decide how they should be punished. Sometimes they are allowed to live in their own homes and they have to pay a fine or serve their ...
In a small city in Ohio, you'll find an old (and possibly haunted) prison that has been featured in multiple movies, ...
"Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire" (Metropolitan Books, 496 pages, $30), by Robert Perkinson As Robert Perkinson points out in "Texas Tough," his very readable history of U.S. prisons, ...
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Ryan Moser, a writer formerly incarcerated in Florida, and Kate McQueen of the Prison Journalism Project, about the rise of newspapers published in prisons. Since the ...
Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...
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TEXAS, USA — Probably not the most likely place for a rodeo, but once upon a time in Texas, just outside the “Walls” unit of the state prison in Huntsville, thousands of prisoners risked life and limb ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Several legends surround an old, abandoned building in Nashville that if not for the barbed wire fences and watch towers might be mistaken for a castle. Left abandoned for ...