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Since January, Robert Clegg and 11 other men have been writing to the Star-Tribune with allegations against Wyoming State Penitentiary staff.

Since January, Robert Clegg and 11 other men have been writing to the Star-Tribune with allegations against Wyoming State Penitentiary staff.

Nobody ever applies for the title “visionary.” It is a title that can only be bestowed in a person’s life by the cognoscenti. In life, it is easier to attach the title “maverick” to someone who is misunderstood or controversial. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines a visionary as “one that has foresight and imagination. One who finds unique opportunities. A leader that tries new ideas, activities, or processes with the ability to remain focused. Individuals ma...

Does sentencing a teenager to life without parole serve our society well? The United States is the only country in the world that routinely condemns children to die in prison. This is the story of one of those children, now a young man, seeking a second chance in Florida. At age 15, Kenneth Young received four consecutive life sentences for a series of armed robberies. Imprisoned for more than a decade, he believed he would die behind bars. Now a U.S. Supreme Court decision could set him free. �...

— By Ron Jenkins, a visiting professor at Yale Divinity School who has taught ISM courses on prison and the arts since 2015. Ron was also an ISM fellow from 2022-23. “I had a life-sentence and I didn’t think I was coming home, sometimes I would feel like my life was over. I would go to the prison chapel, get on the piano, and just sing. That would be my way of talking to God.”

Books to prisons: How an Alabama pen pal program is helping inmates stay connected through reading

Dean Hoffman, 60, died by suicide after being placed in solitary confinement for nine days at Waupun Correctional Institution.

Inmates at this bucolic but brutal prison have long been singing the blues to sustain themselves, and a new compilation of gospel songs continues the legacy

GEO Group Inc., faced with allegations that making immigrant detainees labor in the company’s civil detention centers constitutes human trafficking, will attempt to convince the Tenth Circuit on Monday to revive its defense of derivative sovereign immunity.

There is growing alarm about Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail after the 10th inmate death at the facility this year amid an ongoing DOJ probe into longtime issues of overcrowding and sanitation. But critics say jail leadership doesn’t want to fix the issues because they have ulterior motives, which includes a new $2B facility.