Prisoner Jay Young trains dogs in prison, John Moran in Cranston. (Brian Snyder / Reuters)
Inmate Edward Parent coaches Chuck Labrador as part of NEADS ‘Prison Pup in prison in Cranston, John Moran. (Brian Snyder / Reuters)
Typical prison cell in the prison in Lynwood, California. (Reuters)
Patient-prisoner in his cell at the California medical facility in Vacaville. (Robert Galbraith / Reuters)
Patients prisoners gathered in the hallway at the California medical facility in Vacaville. (Robert Galbraith / Reuters)
Patients are prisoners in their cells at the California medical facility in Vacaville. (Robert Galbraith / Reuters)
Dr. Bick sitting with inmates at California medical facility in Vacaville. (Robert Galbraith / Reuters)
Execution chamber in prison in Utah shortly after the execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner. (POOL New / Reuters)
A member of the Sheriff’s Department in an old abandoned prison in Golden, Jefferson County. (Rick Wilking / Reuters)
Photographer looks into one of the chambers abandoned Jefferson County Jail in Golden, Colorado. Empty prison in 1958 from 1984, and soon to be demolished.(Rick Wilking / Reuters)
Prisoner reading a book in the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix. (Joshua Lott / Reuters)
Inmates in the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix. (Joshua Lott / Reuters)
Prisoners talk on the phone at the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix. (Joshua Lott / Reuters)
Prisoners take their personal belongings in the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix. (Joshua Lott / Reuters)
Inmates eat in the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix. (Joshua Lott / Reuters)
Mattresses for prisoners lie along the fence in the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix. (Joshua Lott / Reuters)
Prisoners in the classroom at the Orange County jail in Santa Ana. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
Inmate on checking in the Orange County jail in Santa Ana. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
Inmates working in the laundry at the Orange County jail in Santa Ana. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
Prisoners are watching TV in the Orange County jail in Santa Ana. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
29 year-old prisoner Bobby Cortez in his cell at the California prison for Men in Chino. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
The prisoner is reading a book in the gym, where he and others were temporarily placed by overcrowding in Chino, California. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
Jailed for Men in Chino. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
Conditionally convicted criminal with wearing on his leg tracking device in Santa Ana. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
Orange County sheriff’s deputy standing in the door after loading imprisoned in Fullerton, California. The second-largest U.S. city of Los Angeles has the lowest crime rate in 50 years, violent crime, including murder, were reduced by 11 percent, property crimes by 8 percent and single murder by 18 percent compared with 2008. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
Cory Walters embraces his daughter Hannah in prison for women in Chino. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
Inmates take part in group therapy in state prison San Quentin. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
51-year-Martel Collins does pushups in the exercise yard at San Quentin. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
Marvin Caldwell in his cell at San Quentin. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)
The prisoner is reading a book in his cell in the central prison male in Los Angeles, California. (Jason Redmond / Reuters)
Prisoner plays himself in the men’s chess Central Jail in Los Angeles. (Jason Redmond / Reuters)
Inmates in the Maricopa County tent jail in Phoenix. (Joshua Lott / Reuters)
Encased in a tent Maricopa County jail in Phoenix. (Joshua Lott / Reuters)
Bull faces of prisoners during the event “Convicted poker” Liziana in state prison in Angola. (Jana Asenbrennerova / Reuters)
Prisoners at the graduation ceremony a high school GED in a detention center George Motchana Correctional institution Rikers Island in New York. (Mike Segar / Reuters)
Sergeant James Ludwig stands near death row in section F in prison in Livingston, 75 miles northeast of Houston, Texas. (Reuters / Richard Carson)
The prisoner in his cell in the male central prison in Los Angeles. (Jason Redmond / Reuters)
