Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this file photo from July 2014, a group gets a tour of a dormitory at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. (Jarvis ...

A national prison writing project to be housed at Johns Hopkins has received a $2.3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. The American Prison Writing Archive, an open-source digital archive that ...

John Tateishi was just under three years old when he was sent to prison. He was never arrested or charged with a crime. But like over 120,000 other Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans, he and ...

A quiet yet seismic shift is occurring in America’s prison cells. Fewer inmates are reading the Bible behind bars, while more are reading the Quran. That’s right. Islam is quickly becoming the ...

A new investigation reveals the dangerous life-threatening jobs American prisoners are forced into for little to no payment. A new investigation is revealing the dangerous, life-threatening jobs ...

As a kid, Levert Brookshire III remembers running away from his father's house. After his parents separated when he was 7, he split his time between them. But around 11 years old, he began sneaking ...

States of all political stripes, including Oklahoma, North Dakota and Massachusetts, have sent officials to tour prisons in Germany in search of ways to improve conditions for American inmates. At ...

Buoyed by a $2.3 million grant, the archive hopes increased visibility on the first-person accounts of incarcerated people can serve as a road map for policy reforms. By Patricia Leigh Brown At an age ...

Steven Garner doesn't like to talk about the day that changed his life. A New Orleans barroom altercation in 1990 escalated to the point where Garner, then 18, and his younger brother Glenn shot and ...

Prison took a further toll, accelerating aging and exacerbating chronic conditions. The hospice volunteers tried to grant the dying inmates' often modest last requests: fresh fruit, a peanut butter ...