STILLWATER, Minn. -- A landmark structure at the site of Minnesota's oldest prison crumbled in a spectacular blaze of flames, a loss to history lovers and developers who wanted to convert the complex ...

The design of the new Storstrøm Prison in Gundslev, Denmark echoes the structure and scale of a small provincial community to stimulate the urge and ability to rejoin society after serving a prison ...

My first experience with a prison town was visiting my father while he was caged in the Taylorville Correctional Facility of Illinois. He was arrested for distribution of a controlled substance. I was ...

Jordan Pasha, Security and Operations Supervisor at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington, on a path inmates at the women’s prison use to get to the recreation yard on ...

When a new addition to the Lancaster County Prison opened in 1991, it featured an electronic system for opening and closing secured doors, a single cell for each person, a library considered the ...

Central Appalachia has one of the highest concentrations of state and federal prisons in the United States. Sylvia Ryerson, Judah Schept, and Anya Slepyan discuss the opportunity costs of prison ...

Lancaster city is considering adopting a plan calling for demolition of the Lancaster County Prison after a new prison opens ...

The Old Joliet Prison was open for nearly 150 years and has been closed for more than 20. A section of the prison that has been off limits will open to the public later this month, but not as part of ...

Despite storm damage that collapsed part of the frame of the new visitor center, Friends of the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp ...