How The Last Mile helped Kenyatta Leal walk from prison in San Quentin to a job in tech Prison spending is 5x more than Higher Education and ~10% of the US prison population is in California. Part of the reason why people return to prison after..

Prison Phone Calls: Trump May Cut The Lifeline BY PRISON LIVES -- Prison systems, prison phone providers and the incarceration philosophies of a president are allowing exploitation of those most affected by incarceration, essentially and callously extending the punishment to both sides of the pri Read more ... son wall.

Life Inside Mexico's 'Infamous Cesspool,' the Black Palace Prison How one overcrowded, dangerous prison attempted to clean up its act

The long path from prison to self-sufficiency

Transgender woman sent back to men's prison after losing appeal A transgender woman who was sent to an all-male prison earlier this month has had her request to be moved to a female prison denied.

'You Would Probably Be Raped' in Prison, Judge Tells Convict She ultimately didn't send him to prison

Man Breaks Out Of Prison Using A Toy Shovel And A Surfboard A 23-year-old man serving time at Bastøy Prison, an island prison in Norway, is on the run after using an antique surfboard and a toy shovel to break out and paddle to mainland.

Meet San Quentin's Trans Prison Guard Mandi Camille Hauwert spent five years as a prison guard at the notorious state prison. Then she did it for three years as a woman.

Ben Carson: Prison Proves Being Gay Is "Absolutely" A Choice Ben Carson, a conservative politician known for speaking candidly but not at all delicately or even coherently, has a new bon mot for you: Prison makes people gay.

How the U.S. Prison Population Became So Massive If you released every person in prison on a drug charge today, our state prison population would drop from about 1.5 million to 1.2 million.