Discover why punishment-based prisons fail, and how psychology offers a more humane and effective path to justice.

President Trump has pressed for quickly deporting hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran men who are said to belong to a foreign crime gang. Those deportations have been challenged as illegal — and ...

Throughout California prisons, outdoor showers were condemned, water hoses in kitchen areas discontinued, and garbage disposal usage ceased. Numerous drinking fountains were turned off, and ice ...

Today’s prisons often resemble medieval “oubliettes”, in which offenders are locked up to punish them for their actions and to protect society. Research shows this approach can worsen, rather than ...

BUTNER, N.C. -- A North Carolina federal prison supervisor has been convicted after investigators say he instructed a correctional officer to physically punish a man incarcerated at the institution by ...

Whole life orders for murders connected to the police, prison or probation officer's current or former duties Whole life order for murders connected ...