Prisons

British police are scouring scoured a huge London park on Friday for an ex-soldier who escaped from prison while awaiting trial on terrorism charges.

A Minnesota prison has “resolved without incident” a situation involving about 100 inmates in one housing unit who would not return to their cells.

The End Solitary Confinement Act would prohibit the practice of isolating inmates and detainees with limited exceptions, while ensuring their due process rights.

It’s only been a few weeks since the “Growing Up Chrisley” star’s parents Todd and Julie Chrisley began serving their respective 12 and seven-year-long prison sentences on Jan. 17.

Carmela Mose is an inmate at Central California Women’s Facility and the winner of the Securus original hip-hop track contest. Her song, “I Think,” was chosen as the winner by the rapper Lecrae, who joined Mose for a studio session – the only one in 10 years that Lecrae has ever cried. LX News storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo meets them both...

Recent reporting on the federal prison system has revealed layer after layer of abuse, neglect and leadership missteps in the Bureau of Prisons — including failure to tell families when a prisoner is severely ill or dying.

A follow-up to an earlier Associated Press investigation finds that the crisis at the federal correctional institution in Dublin is far from over.

A follow-up to an earlier Associated Press investigation finds that the crisis at the federal correctional institution in Dublin, California, is far from over.