Prisoners are now taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic locales such as Thailand. No passport required, just a virtual ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment is possibly the most famous psychological experiment of all time, an insane role-playing game gone horribly wrong thanks to nylon stockings, fire extinguishers, and a ...

In an odd twist of fate, this one is actually real life as portrayed in a movie, spoiling another movie. And that’s because ...

I was one of the researchers in the well-known Stanford prison experiment in 1971, demonstrating the destructive dynamics ...

A Turkish court has ordered the release of journalist Fatih Altayli from prison while he appeals his conviction for allegedly threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Altayli, a veteran journalist ...

Based on a six-year investigation and contraband cellphone footage that courageous incarcerated men supplied from inside one of America’s most dangerous and dysfunctional prison systems, filmmakers ...

The abuse of authority within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a primal example of how state power can be abused in a police state. That’s because a prison is nothing more than a ...

Editor’s note: This article was copublished and edited by Vanity Fair. On a Tuesday in March, I had spent most of my day working on my dissertation proposal and started to feel exhausted and hungry.

Luigi Mangione’s job in federal lockup is cleaning showers — and he’s a one-man welcoming committee, according to a fellow jailbird. When Michael Daddea arrived at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention ...