What prison does to a person.

On incarcerated mothers and their decimated families.

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.

The interactions of inmates and a teacher at a women's prison.

The prison life of O.J. Simpson.

An essay on power.

One of the most valuable cars in the world crashes going 200 mph on the Pacific Coast Highway. Its owner claims to be an anti-terrorism officer. In fact, he’s a former executive at a failed software company—and a career criminal. The unraveling of an epic con.

A federal judge resents the harshness of mandatory drug sentences.

“How do you catch someone up on your entire life?”

An oral history of SHU.

As one of the Angola 3, he was in isolation longer than any other American. Then he came home to face his future.

She went to jail 35 years ago after driving the getaway car in an infamous robbery and defiantly refusing to admit the act was wrong. Her sentence was 75 years. But something changed in prison — Judy Clark went from radical to model inmate. This week her sentence was commuted.

Rolf Kaestel stole $264 in 1981. He’s still in jail.

The vans, operated by for-profit companies, carry tens of thousands of people every year. They lack beds, toilets, and medical services. More than a dozen women have alleged they were sexually assaulted by guards while being transported; since 2012, at least four people have died.

“Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy.”

Thanks to a single court case, the state of Maryland is releasing almost 150 violent offenders who believed they would spend their life behind bars.

The horror of being mentally ill in Florida’s prisons.

Overcrowding in prisons leads to doubling up inmates in solitary confinement, regardless of their homicidal intentions or mental health.

“It is a story that seems almost impossible to believe: a group of female convicts, few of whom had ever played a musical instrument or taken voice lessons, forming a country and western band and becoming, at least in Texas, the Dixie Chicks of their day.”

An attorney pieces together a life cut short.

There is a little-known network of 11 federal prisons in America called Criminal Alien Requirement facilities. They exclusively house men who lack U.S. citizenship and have been convicted of crimes. They are all run privately. And over the last 18 years, they have allowed scores of inmates to die from diseases that could have been treated.

Why “the legal equivalent of outer space” continues to exist, fifteen years after 9/11.

How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.

Eddie Davison sued New York for locking him up under a false premise. Now the state says he owes $2 million.

The murder of Tayshana “Chicken” Murphy in the Harlem projects.