Stories about humanity for Inspired Life. Cathy Free is a former contributing editor for Reader's Digest and worked as a human interest correspondent for People Magazine before joining The Post.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Handmade weapons, unauthorized electronics equipment and other items that could be fashioned or used as weapons are what the South Dakota Department of Corrections ...

A serving prison governor from one of the country's crowded jails has spoken anonymously to Sky News about conditions inside, the reality of early release and why we should rethink who is sent to ...

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 ...

Viewers of the Netflix docuseries Into The Fire: The Lost Daughter will be more than familiar with the powerhouse that is Cathy Terkanian: The woman who gave up her daughter at the age of 16—the ...

WASHINGTON STATE — Fourteen years after the last death sentence was carried out in Washington, the execution chamber at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla was officially closedin a ceremony.

Afterward, Cousins could be seen enthusiastically hugging fired-up Terry Fontenot, the Falcons' oft-maligned general manager who was sharply criticized for the signing and drafting of Cousins and ...

No stereotypes about prison life intrude on the candor and intimacy of ''The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.,'' a discreetly searing documentary that shared top honors at this year's Sundance Film Festival ...

This photo, obtained by The Advertiser, shows the former $19 million high-flying rich-lister, now known as Cathy Jayne Britten, outside Soak House Adelaide, Richmond, in August. Since then ...

When the Kansas Department of Corrections opened a newly constructed Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kansas, in 2020 it meant the old, stone-walled prison building that housed inmates ...