There is a growing awareness about solitary confinement, a practice affecting 60,000 to 100,000 people in U.S. prisons.

A 2017 documentary invites viewers into the depths of human souls.

Nowhere is the contrast between Christian love and hellish indifference more stark than in our prison system.

As the Christmas season draws near, the Vatican postal service prepared a unique set of commemorative stamps designed by a talented, yet unlikely, artist: a prisoner serving a life sentence.

Gold explained how the U.S. had been involved over the years in El Salvador, inadvertently creating the conditions that fomented the growth of gangs in the Central American country shortly after the 1980-1992 civil war that was partially funded by the U.S. government.

Organizers report that inmates in at least 17 states planned to join the protest.