In the Mexican series Prison Cell 211, as a lawyer gets stuck in a prison riot, it’s hard to defend anyone when you’re the one getting murdered.

Prison Cell 211 is the latest true-story thriller to land on Netflix, showcasing the harsh brutality of border city prisons.

An activist built a model cell to illustrate conditions of solitary confinement.

Written testimony from inmate Carlton Wallace. Joe Baltas started getting placed in solitary confinement shortly after getting admitted to prison at age 18. Some of the reasons were frivolous, he ...

The Network of Criminal Justice (Rede de Justiça Criminal) created a 360º video showing what it's like to live in a overcrowded prison cell in Brazil, and in three days it reached more than 9 million ...

Before drinking my first cup of coffee, I like to get my cell in compliance. In Illinois, every prison facility issues each inmate a large personal-property box and a small correspondence box.

The Ohio man held in a dry cell for 55 days in a state prison described it as torture and says it is still tormenting him.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend the night in prison? Most of us will never know, but ex-naval officer Donald “Don” Stevens, 63, has worked at HMP Portland for almost 20 ...