"Free country" throwing thousands in hole for their beliefs Shane Bauer spent 26 months in Iran's Evin Prison, four of t...

Critique follows lawsuit alleging psychological torture at infamous Pelican Bay   Tucked away in a remote corner of Northern Californ...

Gangs are bad, right? And prison gangs are worse? Yet, when members of California prison gangs try to retire, California punishes them. Th...

I thought everyone knew that being locked up alone in a tiny cell -- sometimes for years at a stretch -- is bad for one's psyche. But...

I had intended to limit my dispatches from the American Psychological Association convention in San Diego to forensic highlights. But I woul...

New correctional psychology standards published As most of you know, the largest mental health institutions in the Land of the Free are not ...

Court case may fuel debate at annual APA Convention I've been trying to keep this blog out of the torture debate raging within the Ameri...

The whole world seems glued this week to the bizarre case of Josef Fritzl. As you know, Fritzl is the Austrian man who kept his daughter and...

As an expert witness on behalf of a guard at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, psychologist Philip Zimbardo of Stanford prison experim...

Scot freed after 20 years This story hasn't been getting much press in the United States, but it's been a topic of interest in Europ...

U.N. Committee calls it "torture" In the wake of the deaths of six people in just one week and a videotaped incident at an airport...

The struggle over the role of psychologists in military interrogations is reaching the halls of Congress. Today's issue of Congressional...

Breaking news on the issue of psychologists and torture is available online: At PsychCentral , the article "Psychologists Continue to D...

Mock executions, sexual and religious humiliation, dog attacks, induced hypothermia, sleep deprivation, and threats to kill family members. ...

By Larry Wright, the Detroit News