Five months ago, the University of Hawaiʻi Community Design Center, which includes faculty, staff, students, and allied ...

The price estimate for the northeastern Sioux Falls prison complex is $725 million. That’s $100 million less than a 1,500-bed ...

The pen. The clink. The slammer. The joint. The cooler. The nick. The big house. The hoosegow. Whatever you call it, it is the place most of us dread ending up: prison. A central pillar of our modern ...

Brian Koehn, a Marine Corps veteran and former warden, is leading a movement to transform the criminal justice system with ...

In an innovative program at a jail in Athens, inmates face their past and are given more freedom. The goal? That they stop coming back.

A broad area of weakly spinning low pressure could slowly consolidate and develop into a tropical storm along the ...

With minimal discussion, the Arkansas Board of Corrections unanimously approved a contract on Tuesday night with the company who will design the state’s controversial new prison.

The Arkansas Board of Corrections tentatively approved a $57 million contract related to the design of a planned prison in Franklin County.

Albury mayor likens Thurgoona's new school to a prison, questioning its design and impact on public education standards in the area.

Eastern State Penitentiary’s reentry simulation offers glimpse into post-incarceration challenges Dozens of visitors to the Eastern State Penitentiary got to experience the challenges of acclimating ...

The popular 18th century-era panopticon design, for example, emphasized surveillance and control, pointing all prison cells towards a central rotunda from where they could be easily observed.