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 ...

By Michael S. Rosenwald Philip G. Zimbardo, a towering figure in social psychology who explored how good people turn evil in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, which devolved into chaos ...

Netflix in the US has added a drama based on a real-life prison break in New York that spawned a statewide manhunt. Escape at Dannemora recounts the stranger-than-fiction tale of two convicted ...

Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist best known for his Stanford Prison Experiment, died at 91 on Oct. 14. Zimbardo’s legacy lives on through his research over five decades, spanning mind control ...

Fujitsu has launched the FMV Zero notebook, which at only 634g (1.4 lbs), looks to claim the title of the world’s lightest 14-inch laptop. This ultra-light device is part of FCCL’s FMV ...

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 ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share BOSTON (AP) — A Bosnian man living in Massachusetts has been convicted of lying to get refugee ...

When andy laidlaw began working as a prison officer in 1998 it was “an enjoyable job”. There were “low lows” as well as “high highs”, but it was mostly safe and you “could feel like ...

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 ...

Steve Bannon—a high-profile conservative podcaster and ally of former President Donald Trump—will be released from prison as scheduled next week after serving his full sentence for contempt of ...

Seasoned convicts will give you a handful of tips during your first stay in county jail. They will tell you how to navigate prison gangs, overzealous guards and basic prison politics. They will tell ...

It wasn’t. Within hours, he found himself locked into a 9-foot-square cell in Moscow’s notorious, high-security Lefortovo Prison, where Soviet-era political prisoners had been tortured.