What would your daily life look like if you suddenly ended up behind bars?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Content warning: Discussions of violence, sexual assault, and murder. This past year, I've been asking former inmates and people ...

Nicholas Jacobson had just been accused of murder when a raging infection nearly killed him. Left untreated for two weeks in a California jail, sepsis drove him into a coma as his organs started to ...

It’s been a year since Imhotep Muhammad returned home from Dauphin County Prison after a jury acquitted him of the most serious charges that had him locked up for 26 months. The scars from that time, ...

Inside San Francisco's county jails, a small team of librarians is running one of the city's least flashy but most quietly ...

If new start-ups like Jail Education Solutions can convince prison officials to abandon their symbiotic relationships with companies like Securus and Global Tel*Link — or at least force those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A phone inside the New Orleans jail. A phone inside the New Orleans jail. (Photo by Minh Ha/Verite News) The Federal ...

Lieutenant Thomas Conrad was standing in a control room in Nashville’s new central jail when he noticed something off with one of the key rings hanging on the wall. It was midday on December 30, 2019, ...

An inmate makes a phone call from the female dorms of the Ada County Jail. The Federal Communications Commission recently voted to dramatically increase the cost of prison and jail calls. Sarah A.

The Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls. The 2-1 vote in late October reverses ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections has tracked down 17 people it released from prison and put them back behind bars in a surprising roundup that follows confusion over a recent court ruling. The ...