(Photo: Asahikawa Prison)Don't think of your stay...  ...and not as a place of rehabilitation. [...]“ Prisons have the image of being isolated places that have...

Inmates at some jails and prisons around the United States have discovered that the...

In 2011, two guards at a jail in Alden, New York got into a fight over a bag of potato chips. A prisoner stepped in between them, trying to stop the fight, and got caught in the barrage of blows. Undersheriff Mark N. Wip...

There's a cafeteria at the Abashirishi Prison Museum in northern Japan. There you can eat just like a convict. Rocket News 24 sentenced a correspondent to visit and report back:Perhaps Kuzo’s biggest apprehension w...

You can't be sure what to expect when you check into the Lew Sterret Justice Center in Dallas, Texas. I suggest leaving tips to staff throughout your stay, instead of just at the end, to ensure good service.Link -via Mar...

In 1973, the U.S. prison population was 330,000. T...  ...h" laws spread across the country, and so did new prisons . Forty years later, almost half a million people...

If you see a young person heading down the wrong p...  ...out of prison faster: Inmates in four federal prisons holding some of Brazil's most notorious criminals...

Are you thinking of committing a few felonies? Plan ahead and hire a prison consultant so that you'll be ready on the first day that you step inside. There's a thriving industry of people who prepare recently-convicted f...

In order to control its population of rebellious human prisoners, South Korea's Ministry of Justice plans to test robot prison guards: The robots are designed to patrol the corridors of corrective institutions, monito...

Prisons make the perfect hotels?  One wouldn't think so...  ...ink so but here are some examples of hellish old prisons from around the world that have been converted...