ALTIPLANO FEDERAL PRISON, Mexico—Cell No. 20, where Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán spent more than a year locked up, ... The only bright spot is a small barred window.

Instead, the jail commander picked Baker-Miller pink, a vibrant shade. "I was like, 'I don't think we can have it this color.' And then I sat down in there, and I was like this is working!

The bird perched for a moment on the bars. Its beak was bright yellow. Even its brown plumage, amid all the prison gray, seemed colorful.

Activity at the Clements Unit, a state prison in Amarillo, Texas, was always churning. Night after night, doors slammed and people yelled. Sometimes, staff delivered medications at 2 a.m.

"Capone's cell, which he shares with an embezzler known as 'Bill' Coleman, prison statistician, doesn't look like the cozy den of a king of leisure," reads the Philadelphia Record account from Aug ...

This Father’s Day, listen to "Prisoncast" on WBEZ to hear stories of moms, dads and children working to love each other across prison walls. What it means to be a good dad — from inside a ...

Nadya Tolokonnikova previews her stamina-testing performance in a mock prison cell at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Nadya Tolokonnikova previews her stamina-testing performance in ...