Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it.

An attorney for a California solar power company has been sentenced to 11 years and five months in prison for helping orchestrate a $1 billion fraud scheme, federal ...

Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing has left viewers hooked on the 'unusual' social experiment hosted by Jonathan Ross.

A man who may spend the rest of his life behind bars says it’s where he’s found the most personal freedom. “Seeing gay masculinity presented in context, both through the teenage lens, and the prisoner ...

SMITH Insight Kansas. In last month’s column, I took policymakers to task for forgetting former Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s ta ...

Poker machines are designed to celebrate wins but stay silent on losses. A new project aims to disrupt that psychological design by introducing a simple losing sound – and to push for legislative ...

Tensions began to fray as controversial new Channel 4 show Handcuffed continued last night - forcing a married woman to shower with a tattooed porn star.

The programme, hosted by Jonathan Ross, hit our screens on Monday night and saw a group of 18 random people get paired off and cuffed together in a bid to win a hefty cash prize.

A nurse scientist interviewed 29 formerly incarcerated Black men in Philadelphia to understand how they address their mental ...

Myanmar's military junta granted amnesty on Monday to more than 7,000 prisoners convicted of financing or sheltering a "terrorist group", a designation it has used to outlaw pro-democracy factions ...

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