ADX Florence is where America sends inmates considered too dangerous, violent, or influential for any ordinary prison. Its prisoners can spend around 22 hours a day inside concrete cells, surrounded ...

Over the span of a single week at the end of March, a Michigan prisoner was found dead inside his cell in what authorities are investigating as a homicide, two inmates died inside New York City’s ...

A prison interview with a man incarcerated seven times reveals how identity loss, emotional survival, and social ...

Jayson Murphy lit the speck of paper and inhaled, holding the smoke in his lungs as long as he could. His cellmate, John Jenkins, purchased the drug-soaked paper from another incarcerated man at ...

Read on to learn a bit about eight historic American prisons, all open to some extent to the public, and each with its story of notorious inmates, murder and mayhem. Most of these slammers offer tours ...

Bridging the Gap, a conference focused on improving journalism in and on U.S. prisons and jails, will take place in Chicago ...