Too often, public officials have the final say on how much the public knows about what happens in America's jails
A tattoo-covered doctor helps ex-cons remove their most scarring legacies
Two criminals, one a self-described "Moorish national," busted out of a high-rise lockup using a rope of bedsheets
Two ex-inmates are trying to bring higher education to the incarcerated, one maximum security facility at a time
It's time to stop blaming the federal government and start looking at the parasitism of corporate America
A new report reveals that the waiting list for addiction treatment in federal prisons is 51,000 inmates long
Inmates said guards put them through humiliating, painful acts including simulating sex and kissing snakes
A study finds U.S. prisons to be sites of stress-inducing trauma comparable to war zones
"60 Minutes" interviews Shin Dong-hyuk, a survivor from a North Korean prison camp VIDEO
Before the storm Mayor Bloomberg showed disregard for inmates, who added relief work to 39 cents-an-hour labor
Proposition 36 could free thousands of addicts with major sentences for minor offenses
The mayor gives an inadvertently revealing answer to a question about inmates' well-being during the storm
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