A 43-year-old Cambodian man describes being sent by the United States to an Eswatini prison for over five months.

This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Six days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Alishea Kingdom went to a ...

Incarceration can take years, even decades, out of a person’s life. If and when they do get out of prison, they will be stepping into an entirely different world, one they will likely feel alienated ...

Thanks to policy changes in six prison systems and several dozen jail systems, families are talking more and saving money.

The number of prisoners paroled in Louisiana has plummeted under Gov. Jeff Landry to its lowest point in 20 years, the most visible impact of the “tough on crime” policies he campaigned on. The parole ...

Immigration experts in the United States and Latin America and groups that track Venezuelan prisons said Venezuela has no known policy or practice of sending prisoners to the U.S., and Venezuelan ...

California has transferred hundreds of condemned men from San Quentin’s death row to other prisons as part of a plan to transform the facility into a model for rehabilitation. Nearly one-third of ...

Mark Taylor says that his work at Pelican Bay in California is his way of “making amends” Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty;Tiffany Conover/ Pelican Bay State Prison The first-of-its kind ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - State prisons in the United States became more violent and nearly 50% deadlier over the past five years as authorities struggled to keep enough guards on the job, ...

In a recent release of prisoners in Cuba, former Adael Leyva Diaz (C-R) and relatives toast with beer after being freed in the Santa Amalia neighborhood in Havana on March 13, 2026. YAMIL LAGE AFP via ...