Today’s prisons often resemble medieval “oubliettes”, in which offenders are locked up to punish them for their actions and to protect society. Research shows this approach can worsen, rather than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a teenager, John Pace dreamed of playing football or becoming a police officer. But growing up in Philadelphia, he found ...

Most of us only know what prison life looks like thanks to movies and TV shows — and those tend to exaggerate almost everything. In reality, a lot of what people believe about prison is a mix of myths ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ministry program student at a Texas prison. Some inmates cite religion to avoid gang recruitment. Robert Daemmrich Photography ...

Inside a state prison near Stillwater, Minn., past the guards and the wings of cells stacked one on top of another, tucked in the corner of a computer lab, Richard Adams and Paul Gordon are fervently ...

Three white supremacists and members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang were sentenced to federal prison Monday after being convicted of ordering multiple murders while serving time in the ...

A Washington D.C. district court judge suggested a 75-year-old pro-life activist "make every effort to stay alive" as part of the "tenets of your religion" while sentencing her to prison. On May 31, ...

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 ...

In the wake of the Pope’s prison visit Dec. 26, the Register spoke with Catholic prison-ministry workers around the United States about their work and about the Jubilee Year. Las Cruces Bishop Peter ...

When you hear the word "prison," what comes to mind? Maybe you picture inmates in orange uniforms, steel bars, or strict wardens. But prison life is much deeper and darker than what movies or TV shows ...