Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Newsletters
Sign in

US prisons

December 2024

  • a man in front of a microphone

    Indiana man receives 130 years in prison for murders of teenaged girls in 2017

  • An image of a woman standing in red graduation robes holding a rolled up degree tied with a ribbon

    Survivors of prison sexual abuse scandal ask Biden for clemency: ‘Give us a chance’

  • Outside shot of women's prison

    US Bureau of Prisons pays ‘historic’ $115m to survivors of staff sexual abuse

  • Man in suit outdoors with other men in suits.

    Victims of ‘kids-for-cash’ judge outraged by Biden clemency: ‘What about all of us?’

  • ‘Not intended to rehabilitate people’: inside America’s broken parole system

  • Lawyers say they suspect Harvey Weinstein has been deliberately mistreated in prison

  • US shuts down prisons amid scrutiny over sexual abuse and crisis of suicides

  • Top House Democrat calls on Biden to pardon ‘working-class Americans’

November 2024

  • barbed wire against red background. silhouette barbwire. imprisonment. jail. confinement, gaol, constraint, bond concept

    Inmates burn themselves in protest at ‘inhumane’ Virginia prison conditions

  • the outside of a jail

    New York City found in contempt over conditions in city jails

  • Biden at a mic with athletes behind him.

    Biden must Trump-proof US democracy, activists say: ‘There is a sense of urgency’

  • Man puts finger to chin

    Biden urged to use clemency powers to tackle ‘crisis’ of US mass incarceration

  • Recalled district attorney charges 11 Bay Area jail staff over 2021 death in custody

  • Killings, stabbings, drugs: DoJ report paints damning picture of Atlanta jail

  • California voters reject measure to ban forced prison labor

  • Florida bail bondsman accused of coercing women to have sex for bond

October 2024

  • a man stands at a lectern

    Inmate Steve Bannon reportedly hangs with the white guys and teaches civics

  • HMP Wandsworth in London. Photograph: Andrew Aitchison/Corbis/Getty

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope – podcast

  • a women sitting down outside

    Idaho jailed her for registering to vote. She says she’ll never vote again

  • A graphic illustration of a hand in an orange sleeve holding a ballot.

    Incarcerated Californians can’t vote. A prison held an election anyway

About 1,107 results for US prisons
1234...
Explore more on these topics