(Unrelated photo by Nathan Bittinger)Wesley Evans has been an inmate at the jail of Jasper County, Texas after being arrested for auto theft, arson, and aggravated robbery. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment...

When you look through the list of great prisoner characters in movies at TVOM, you might be surpri...  ...ovies you’ve enjoyed that involve convicts, prisoners -of-war, or otherwise involuntarily institutionali...

(Photo: Gustavo Alvarez)In 2009, Gustavo Alvarez (...  ...and published a cookbook filled with recipes from prisoners who have to improvise with ingredients and kitche...

(Photo: Peter Foley/Wall Street Journal)Harvard's...  ...uch of a challenge. But the judges ruled that the prisoners , who are participating in a rigorous educational...  ...urst into applause. That included about 75 of the prisoners ’ fellow students at the Bard Prison Initiat...  ...vard team members sai...

(Image: WRAL)Superior Court Judge Carl Fox of Chap...  ...I'd do it,” Alston said.Regulations prevent prisoners from donating bone marrow. But Judge Fox was none...

How far would you go to avoid jury duty?...  ...jury selection wearing a black-and-white striped prisoner costume with matching hat. According to Th...

"OMG! You've never seen the Internet?" How would you explain the Internet if you've never been online? Justine Sharrock of Buzzfeed asked a handful of inmates from California's San Quentin State Pr...

A prisoner /geek in Wales had his secret stash of matchstick...

Paul van Bree has been hired by prisons in the Net...  ...been hired by prisons in the Netherlands to help prisoners contact and make peace with dead relatives: He...  ...es: He has claimed that by talking to both the prisoner and the prisoner 's dead parents he can disco...

42-year-old Roberto Carrillo didn't want to be in jail for New Years Eve. He tried to escape the cell in Valle Hermoso, Mexico by squeezing through a gap he saw where the roof met a wall of bars, but there wasn't enough...