Approximately 10 years ago, Madison Correctional prison employee, Sgt. Rolaunda Mitchell founded a program now known as M.A.P., the Madison Arts Program. It is described as “a coordinated effort by ...

No hoodies or sweatpants. No jewelry except wedding or engagement rings and small stud earrings. No phones. No pencils or blue pens — only black ink pens. The list of dos and don’ts to enter the ...

The prison first opened its doors in 1940. The Lexington Herald wrote in 1941 that Ashland was "one of a chain of prisons recommended by a congressional committee which investigated overcrowded ...

Each time a door clangs shut behind us, my heart races a little faster. We’ve taken off our shoes, belts, and jewelry to get through security, handed over our IDs, and left phones and laptops in the ...

In the parched, rolling hills of Tallahassee, Florida, sits a rundown low-security federal women’s prison housing one of America’s most infamous convicts, Ghislaine Maxwell. Black filth smeared on ...