A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

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When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

She is not one of, but “the leading installation artist and sculptor of her generation”, according to the introduction to her site-specific exhibition at the former prison compound.

The Board of Corrections also approved a lease for a ‘Women’s health unit' and expressed concerns about a delay regarding a ...

The bill increases the maximum amount of bonds that can be issued by the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority from $785 million to $1.285 billion. The authority tried to sell more than ...

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State paid €29m for Thornton Hall site, now worth just €6.5m Thornton Hall prison site in North County Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren The Irish Prison Service has spent more than €114,000 over ...

And, to be fair, Dalli inherited a prison where inmates were basically encouraged to get hooked on drugs. Still, this is a flawed and dangerous justification. For example, Norway’s Halden Prison ...