The USA has the highest rate of youth imprisonment and on any given day there are more than 70,000 youths in detention. And the biggest winners of this mass incarceration? The for-profit prison companies or you, the public?

A South Korean court has sentenced K-pop stars Jung Joon Young and Choi Jong Hoon to six and five years in prison for gang raping drunk unconscious women. They should have gotten 25 years each.

Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, in what is the highest known imprisonment rate in the world, according to newly leaked data obtained by AP.

A prisoner was 'covered in filth and barking like a dog' after 600 days of solitary confinement in a Virginia jail. 61,000 adults and children are held in segregation in US prisons, according to the most recent data.