A Clayton County commissioner spent Monday night listening to formerly incarcerated people talk about what is keeping them ...

The psychological experiment is back in the news thanks to the Netflix unscripted show ‘The New Stanford Prison Experiment’ ...

In 2006, California’s prison system housed more than 170,000 people, 199% of the capacity it was designed to hold. Five years later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that health conditions in the state’s ...

Inside the walls of Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey, no one is living quite like inmate #37452-054. There are men who cook for him and men who clean for him. There are men who make his bed and ...

The Bad Boys records founder — who is currently serving a 50-month sentence for prostitution-related offenses — was sent to ...

An inmate’s reveal about life in prison has gone viral — and some TikTokkers are seemingly into it. In the video, a user named Jodie (@jodieandjail) shared a document about her “basic guide to life” ...

Combs was stripped of 41 days of what’s known as good conduct time, pushing back his scheduled prison release date from ...

According to NBC News, the disgraced mogul even has inmates cooking for him.

The New Stanford Prison Experiment is a new Netflix reality show inspired by a real 1971 study. Conducted by Stanford ...

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We were standing by a large white board in one of the prison’s educational areas, debriefing how our study on hope had gone when the man slipped into the room without a sound. Like the other ...