Based on a six-year investigation and contraband cellphone footage that courageous incarcerated men supplied from inside one of America’s most dangerous and dysfunctional prison systems, filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman give their audience a gut-wrenching view of something that few outsiders ever see: that hidden world of punishment laid bare,

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Danny Masterson, who was convicted on rape charges, continues to grab the public's attention over his bizarre prison transfers. The entertainer best known for his time on "That '70s Show" recently settled into his third prison in two months. This move came ...

A women’s prison in California so plagued by sexual abuse that it was known among inmates and workers as the “rape club” will be closed, the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters said that ...

When Andre Gay went to state prison in Pennsylvania in 1972, he was just 16 years old, sentenced to life without parole for murder and aggravated robbery. "I was a kid when I came to jail," he says, "so I was basically a blank slate." Gay learned from the ...

This piece was reported through The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that covers the U.S. criminal-justice system. Three years ago, the young man who would later be known as John Doe 1 shuffled into the Richard A. Handlon Correctional ...

R. Kelly was hospitalized for an overdose after prison staff gave him "an amount of medicine that could have killed him" and was later forcibly removed from a hospital against medical advice, his lawyer alleged in a statement to CBS News and a federal ...

David Pyrooz has received research grant funding in last five years from the City of Denver's Department of Public Safety, the National Institute of Justice (US Department of Justice), the Charles Koch Foundation, and the National Institute of Child Health ...

In Chile’s oldest and most overcrowded prison, the inmates have found solace in the hundreds of stray cats. A cat on a prisoner’s back in Chile’s Santiago Sur prison.Credit...Cristobal Olivares for The New York Times Supported by By Jack Nicas Jack ...

Beyond basic necessities, everything has a price in prison. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Marshall Project reporter Beth Schwartzapfel about the prison economy and how incarcerated people make money. There's this saying you often hear about prison - at ...

The Justice Department released more files linked to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including a letter he apparently sent to Larry Nassar while in prison. The 2019 letter is signed by “J. Epstein” and is sent to “L.N.” WARNING: The content of the letter is graphic and could be considered disturbing in nature.