One of the suspects in the rape and murder of a woman in Delhi last year is in critical condition after nearly being killed by fellow inmates in prison.
A few days after The New York Times published a rather arresting column written by an inmate staging a hunger strike, 25 percent more prisoners have joined the protest.
It was easy to forget he was gone, but Wesley Snipes has been in a Pennsylvania jail since December 2010 for failing to file his tax returns. And now he's free! Sort of. He's confined to house arrest until July 19. And just in case he's reading this: being under house arrest DOES NOT get you out of filing your taxes. Get on it!
Steven Slevin was depressed when police arrested him on a DWI charge. Being thrown into a padded room, entirely alone, for 22 months without a trial did not help. Now, he's a multi-millionaire.
In a news cycle already clogged with troubling reports from Guantanamo Bay arrives an even more troubling report: In January, a guard fired a "non-lethal" round at a prisoner.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
If you're going to do a deep investigative story on the horrors of prison confinement why not ask someone who has some experience being locked up in terrifying conditions?
The new Supreme Court term begins next Monday and Court watchers are already sizing up the cases that they plan to hear, including one with a rather unusual approach to lawyering.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Gunmen stormed a prison in the Iraqi city of Tikrit this morning, killing 12 guards and freeing more than 90 prisoners.
Former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik's social calendar is obviously a lot clearer now that he's in prison, but he still has to juggle people.
Ever since Amy Poehler suggested on Saturday Night Live that former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was wearing a toupee that's also wearing a toupee, the reality of his hair has been a bit of a lingering question, but now we know the truth: It's real, but he dyes it.
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich just entered a federal prison in Colorado after what sounds like a very disappointing lunch at a "50's-style restaurant" outside Denver, during which he couldn't finish his double patty melt with fries.
State's ban on X-rated magazines and movies is unconstitutional, according to some in lockup
Missouri ex-con Jeff Smith goes into detail on what guests at a party were too afraid to ask
One blogger explains the infinitely varied approaches to photographing prisons
The bleak statistic raises questions on the state of public health care
Forty years later, participants describe what they were thinking
On the end of NATO, the Army's liberal ethos, and the cost of urban farming
Visitors go to Venezuelan prison for 'sinful' weekend partying
On regulating the global media, Chicago's approach to global warming, and immigration
On Russia's rigged justice, marginalizing climate change and more
An article in a Taliban magazine details its latest prison break
On China, America as Europe's slum, and Bob Dylan's poetry
Now a federal prosecutor is getting involved
AP report alleges prisoners held for weeks in temporary sites
At UNICOR, prisoners build everything, for everyone, in every field
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