The artist asked inmates around the country to find an “ideal pebble” in the prison yard and send it to him.Credit...Video by Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times Supported by By Arthur Lubow ...

Zimbardo's "Prison Experiment," a landmark and controversial study, was shut down after six days, but its implications have had a profound effect.

Frequently, hip-hop artists have found themselves on the wrong side of the law and are locked up in jail or have to serve a lengthy prison bid. XXL looks at over two dozen rappers who are in jail ...

Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial "Stanford Prison Experiment" in which participants playing prison guards became abusive, has died aged 91. Stanford University announced ...

The architect of an armed violent home invasion in Bethlehem Township last year was sentenced Wednesday to maximum of 40 years in state prison. Anthony Felix Santiago must serve a minimum of 20 ...

Though he is provided with a straw mat, Matthew says he prefers to sleep on the concrete floor of his cell in the maximum-security wing of Singapore’s Changi Prison. “It’s more cooling that ...

The Stanford prison experiment, a prison simulation that took place over two weeks in 1971, forever shifted the field of psychology and its interpretation of human nature. Now, a new docuseries by ...

Mahmood said the prison service is "on the brink of disaster", and admitted "prison is not working at the moment", with prison places running out and many prisoners reoffending. The justice ...

Former Marine Paul Whelan described the “torture” he endured while being held captive in a Russian prison for years. “The Russian government wanted to put pressure on the United States by ...

Tougher punishments outside prison are being considered as part of a government review into sentencing. The review will be launched on Tuesday by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood in a bid to ease ...