Matthew Langdown, former prison officer at HMP Guys Marsh, smuggled drugs and other prohibited items to inmates ...

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A former upstate New York prison guard on trial for murder repeatedly stomped on the head of a 22-year-old inmate during a ...

Life behind bars is often portrayed through dramatic scenes, harsh rules, and exaggerated stereotypes. But those who’ve lived ...

Call to Action: How Programs in Three Cities Responded to the Prisoner Reentry Crisis, by Paul VanDeCarr, details successful efforts in Jacksonville, Fla., Memphis, and Washington to help recently ...

An ex-prisoner shares how he landed a $50,000 job after 16 years. Discover how he presented his case and turned his life around.

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It is just before 4 on a Monday morning, and the 2700 block of Baltimore’s East Madison Street is dark and forbidding, dotted with boarded-up houses. Homes that remain occupied sport “no loitering” ...

Imagine two people leaving the same prison on the same day. One walks out with options. Family is waiting. There is a ride, a phone, a place to sleep. The paperwork says to report to parole in their ...

A Venezuelan man who was deported from the U.S. and detained at CECOT prison in El Salvador has become the first known ...

When Andre Ruddock was born, doctors told his family they didn’t think he would live. Ruddock had health problems because his mother was addicted to heroin when she was pregnant with him. “Obviously, ...