Prison literature is a literary genre characterized by literature that is written while the author is confined in a location against his or her will,...

American prison literature is literature written by Americans who are incarcerated. It is a distinct literary phenomenon that is increasingly studied...

camps. In American English, the terms prison and jail have separate definitions, though this is not always adhered to in casual speech. A prison or penitentiary...

are sent to prison for the same crime. However, since the early 2000s, the incarceration rates for African American and Hispanic American women have declined...

A military prison is a prison operated by a military. Military prisons are used variously to house prisoners of war, unlawful combatants, those whose...

(2016-07-27). "Linguistic creativity in American prison settings". Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature. 40 (1): 81. doi:10.17951/lsmll.2016...

Prison rape commonly refers to the rape of inmates in prison by other inmates or prison staff. In 2001, Human Rights Watch estimated that at least 4.3...

84639°E / 21.02528; 105.84639 Hỏa Lò Prison (Vietnamese: [hwa᷉ː lɔ̂], Nhà tù Hỏa Lò; French: Prison Hỏa Lò) was a prison in Hanoi originally used by the French...

was the first documented expansion of the prison library to include moral teachings from secular literature. Thomas Mott Osborne's tenure as warden of...

1298–1299 – Marco Polo dictates his Travels to Rustichello da Pisa while in prison in Genoa, according to tradition. 1300, Easter – The events of Dante's Divine...