El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown ...

Johnny Valenciano has been incarcerated since he was 18 years old. Now 32, he spent the better part of that time in the state’s highest security prison: the Idaho Maximum Security Institution. For six ...

Maria Montalvo speaks with emotion, her eyes shining as she recounts her reading experiences. She says she especially enjoys books by Isabel Allende, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Erika L. Sánchez ...

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 ...

Migrants deported from the US, and even “dangerous” American citizens convicted of heinous crimes could be headed to a notorious hellhole prison in El Salvador, where inmates live in over-crowded ...

DEER LODGE, Mont. — The Montana State prison in Deer Lodge, houses over 1,600 inmates. NBC Montana got an inside look at the facility — and what’s being done to address overcrowding, and to find out ...

BAYPORT, Minn. — Minnesota Correctional Facility Stillwater looks the same on the outside as it has for decades, an intimidating brick building on the eastern side of the metro. Inside, though, and it ...

Opening Shot: Two police detectives enter a prison ward and show their IDs. They’re greeted by corrections officers already bringing someone out in a body bag. The Gist: Four weeks earlier, Barry ...

Inside Georgia’s prisons, wave after wave of prison employees have become criminals themselves — smuggling in contraband or allowing others to do it and at times pocketing payoffs in the thousands, an ...

A Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility inmate accused of smuggling drugs inside the prison was indicted on Nov. 19, according ...