Inmates in Texas prisons want a federal court to force the state to provide air-conditioning for all of its prison cells. By Lauren McGaughy Reporting from Austin. A federal judge in Austin will soon ...

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PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona's prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - State prisons in the United States became more violent and nearly 50% deadlier over the past five years as authorities struggled to keep enough guards on the job, ...

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In the days since a congressional budget impasse caused a federal government shutdown, public attention has largely focused on high-profile impacts like employee furloughs, air travel delays and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado’s prisons are so full that the Department of Corrections for the first time has triggered a legislatively mandated process designed to speed up the ...

Prisons prioritize security over comfort. But concrete walls, steel doors, sealed windows, limited ventilation, lack of tree cover and outdated infrastructure converge to create dangerously hot ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Dark Tourism embraces sites associated with death, tragedy and the macabre. Though it may be a new description, it’s certainly not a new phenomenon. Travelers into this morbid side of travel have a ...

Several states, including California, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, are shuttering prisons as inmate populations decline and budgets tighten. The reprieve means that roughly 90 staff members won’t have ...