Prisons serve as a principal form of punishment in the United States. In 1997, federal prison facilities held 99,000 inmates, while state prisons held just over one million inmates. Local jails held another 567,000 prisoners. These figures represent a...

A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Prisons are conventionally institutions, which form part of the criminal justice...

After 34 years behind bars, the man labelled Britain's most dangerous inmate claims to be a reformed character. In an exclusive interview, Robert Verkaik comes face to face with the sinister, defiant - and charming - Charles Bronson 'On the day you come,...

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, MOST 'cult' shows we talk about really aren't all that cultish. True, Ster Trek, The X-Files and Buffy have their obsessed, semi-religious followers but everyone knows about them. If you're looking for a real cult show, one that has...

RESCUE DAWN Running time 126 minutes Written and directed by Werner Herzog Starring Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies From his adolescent debut in Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun to his dramatic weight loss as a human skeleton in The Machinist, Christian Bale has never...

Four armed inmates released a captive prison administrator, his secretary and two female guards on Wednesday in Western Honduras, responding to pleas from a priest and relatives of the hostages.The inmates, who held the hostages for more than a day, gave up on demands for...

In 1971 there were fewer than 200,000 inmates serving time in America’s state and federal prisons. During the 1980s and early 1990s, the American public’s fear of rising violent crime—mainly attributable to the explosion of the crack...

It talks about how we can solve the problem of overcrowded jails in America.

Examines the abuse which takes place in female prisons in the United States. Focuses on sexual abuse. Explores the role of prison overcrowding.

A research paper on the prison systems in the Victorian Age.