Geese sleep on the grounds outside of Taylorville Correctional Center in Christian County, Illinois Credit: Jason Matthews/Flickr via CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 This spring, the Illinois House is set to take up ...

After roughly a year in jail, Sean “Diddy” Combs received his prison sentence. Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced Combs to 50 months in prison. Combs’ lawyers have criticized this ruling. The attorney ...

I was one of the researchers in the well-known Stanford prison experiment in 1971, demonstrating the destructive dynamics that are generated when one group of people — randomly assigned as “guards” — ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. The reprieve means ...

I believe for profit prisons are very much an Anglo trend Traditionally US obviously uses them by far the largest degree, (some states do so heavily) but UK Australia and New Zealand also have them.

TRANSFERRING DEATH row inmates to private prisons was a bad idea that appears to have been stopped in time. The Mississippi House and Senate both passed a bill giving the corrections commissioner the ...

The Marshall Project reports on Georgia's less than 60-cent prison meals that leave incarcerated people starved, sick and ...