InSight Crime

Despite Interventions, Venezuela’s Prison Gangs Thrive

The intervention in yet another Venezuelan prison under criminal leaders’ control highlights the ongoing failure of President Nicolás Maduro’s regime to eliminate the country’s prison gangs despite a ...
Newsday

After a tumultuous year, the NYS prison system may be at a crossroads

ALBANY — The last six unprecedented months in New York’s prison system, which included a fatal beating of a prisoner and the longest strike by prison guards in state history, could create an ...
InSight Crime

Paraguay’s Endless Prison Crisis

Paraguay’s penitentiary system remains in a state of emergency for a second year, yet without measures to tackle the root causes, the relentless grip of prison gangs, both Paraguayan and Brazilian, ...
Russell Webster

Independent review of the prison system

Earlier this week (1 July 2026), the government announced the launch of an independent review of the prison system to ...
The New Yorker

A Year of Convulsions in New York’s Prisons

J. B. Nicholas runs a news website called The Free Lance from his home in upstate New York, and, near the end of last year, he started obsessively tracking one story: a man confined at a state prison ...
The New York Times

They, Too, Died After Beatings by Guards. No One Raised an Alarm.

Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates? By Jan Ransom Jan Ransom has been covering the ...