Imagine spending years without seeing the sky or hearing another human voice. Your world is reduced to four concrete walls, a steel door, and silence so intense it slowly begins to destroy your mind.

Larry Hoover, a cofounder of a notorious Chicago street gang who was imprisoned in a “supermax” prison for decades, has had his sentence commuted by President Donald Trump. Hoover was one of more than ...

An official report warns that Joaquín Guzmán exchanged messages last year about threats against government informants and payments for drug sales ...