With the San Diego population booming in the mid-1880s, the town’s small police force could hardly keep up with the number of lawbreakers. Many were housed temporarily in an iron “man cage” on the ...

The wake-up call comes at about 4:45 a.m. each day at the Joliet Correctional Center. “Road crew! Get up!” a guard barks into the honors dormitory, a one-room hall where the best-behaved short-timers ...

A proposal to shackle Illinois inmates as they work in “chain gangs” won approval Friday in the House Judiciary Committee despite opposition from prison officials and activists. Proponents of the bill ...

Jodi Arias micro-managed her round of television interviews Tuesday night, demanding hair and makeup and ordering the cameras not to show her from the waist down and the reason why she insisted on ...

It’s obvious that placing a criminal defendant in handcuffs and leg shackles runs the risk of prejudicing a jury. But even when only a judge is present, a policy of shackling a defendant violates his ...

At the maximum-security prison, a correctional officer escorts me up the long, wide passageway that intersects with the housing units, the usual route to the classroom where I teach each week. As we ...

POLEWALI (Indonesia), Oct 6 (AFP)L Locked up all day in a tiny, squalid hut with barely enough space to lie down, Rauf is a prisoner to his mental health issues and carers whose only way of coping is ...