For years, advocates argued that incarcerated people in the U.S. are overcharged for basic phone calls. A new law aimed at capping those costs recently went into effect, but a new report is sounding the alarm about the escalating costs...

Prisoners inside one of California's prisons are getting the opportunity to be heard -- behind bars and beyond. "Ear Hustle" is a podcast that offers listeners a rare look at inmate experiences, from race relations to sharing a tiny...

Reginald Dwayne Betts grew up an honor student with hopes for college, but went to prison at 16 for carjacking, his first run-in with the law. Reading, and poetry in particular, became a comfort and gave him a new identity. The writer,...

Imagine seeking safety abroad and instead being detained and forced to defend yourself in a high-stakes legal battle — alone. Law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández explains how the asylum process in the US became warped into...

In 2011, Teresa Njoroge was convicted of a financial crime she didn't commit -- the result of a long string of false accusations, increasing bribe attempts and the corrupt justice system in her home in Kenya. Once incarcerated, she...

Investigative journalist Will Potter is the only reporter who has been inside a Communications Management unit, or CMu, within a uS prison. These units were opened secretly, and radically alter how prisoners are treated -- even...

Imagine living with no significant human contact for years, even decades, in a cell the size of a small bathroom. This is the reality for those in long-term solitary confinement, a form of imprisonment regularly imposed in US prisons. In...

John Legend is on a mission to transform America's criminal justice system. Through his Free America campaign, he's encouraging rehabilitation and healing in our prisons, jails and detention centers -- and giving hope to those who want...

A phone call to a US prison or jail can cost up to a dollar per minute -- a rate that forces one in three families with incarcerated loved ones into debt. In this searing talk about mass incarceration, criminal justice advocate and TED...

Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation programs to inmates, with...

Howcast - Learn why the federal government is the main opposition to legalizing marijuana in this Howcast video.

Tommie Shelby, a professor at Harvard University, explores the idea of prison abolition, a concept often dismissed as unrealistic. He explains that abolitionists argue prisons are both ineffective and immoral, and that mass incarceration...

ALCATRAZ BETWEEN1934 TO 1963, ALCATRAZ ISLAND IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY WAS A HIGH SECURITY PRISON. WITH THE VERY COLD WATERS ACTING AS A NATURAL ISOLATING BARRIER, “THE ROCK” AS THE ISLAND IS KNOWN, WAS HOME TO SOME OF AMERICA’S TOUGHEST AND...

Whitey Bulger's life played out like a Martin Scorsese film, and certainly, the legendary mobster and his exploits have been well documented in movies and television alike. The eccentric gangster grew up on the streets of Boston in the...

Discover how WMMT's show "Calls from Home" helps Appalachian families stay in touch with incarcerated loved ones.

This video covers the initial years of World War II, focusing on the Battle of the Atlantic and the rapid expansion of Nazi Germany. It describes the devastating impact of German U-Boats, the fall of several European nations, and the...

Carl Portman, Manager of Chess in Prisons (English Chess Federation), Tom Dart, Sheriff, Cook County (Illinois, USA), and Dr Mikhail Korenman, Director of Cook County Jail Chess Program talk about the many benefits of intrducing chess...

The concept of prisons as we know them today is relatively modern. In antiquity, jails served less as places of penitence and more as a purgatory before the final judgment of guilt, which was often punished either by enslavement or...

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) describes how, more than 4 decades after his notorious Stanford Prison Experiment, many people still deny the importance of situational effects.

It wasn't easy to pick this topic, but I believe that America's 40-year policy of mass incarceration is deeply unethical, not very effective, and promotes the security of the few at the expense of the many. It's hard for me, as a person...

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about Crime and Punishment in China

What was it like to live in the Tower of London? That depended on a prisoner's social position and personal wealth; however, even the most notable prisoners were subject to horrible fates. Many prisoners in the Tower of London faced...

Pushcart prize winning poet, translator and professor Ravi Shankar has published, edited or has forthcoming over 15 books, including the Muse India award-winning translations of 9th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal, 'The Autobiography of...

A description of crime and punishment during Queen Victoria's reign when there was once around two hundred crimes that carried the death penalty and hangings were carried out in public.