She was Hollywood drug-dealing royalty, the self-styled “Ketamine Queen” living the high life, quaffing champagne and getting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a teenager, John Pace dreamed of playing football or becoming a police officer. But growing up in Philadelphia, he found ...

Most of us only know what prison life looks like thanks to movies and TV shows — and those tend to exaggerate almost everything. In reality, a lot of what people believe about prison is a mix of myths ...

PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of a life-threatening event, such as physical assault, warfare or imprisonment. For inmates, the prison environment ...

Once in prison, reality was so hard to face that I did everything I could to escape it. I lost even more of myself in drugs, violence and jailhouse politics. In my more lucid moments I knew that I had ...

We were standing by a large white board in one of the prison’s educational areas, debriefing how our study on hope had gone when the man slipped into the room without a sound. Like the other ...

In the wake of the Pope’s prison visit Dec. 26, the Register spoke with Catholic prison-ministry workers around the United States about their work and about the Jubilee Year. Las Cruces Bishop Peter ...

Early one morning in 2003, I woke up next to my girlfriend, Ambere, in the Venice Beach apartment that we shared. Sunlight flitted over the Pacific Ocean and into our bedroom. I ate breakfast and ...

A recent National Academy of Sciences report criticized traditional ways of measuring success after individuals are released from prison that are entrenched in identifying failure by relying solely on ...

With little fanfare, a complex and far-reaching personal documentary by Richard Linklater, “Hometown Prison,” dropped last week on the streaming service Max. It’s one of a trio of excellent films made ...