El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele inaugurated a new maximum-security prison in Costa Rica, just weeks before Costa Rican elections focusing on crime issues. Despite the crime reduction credited to El Salvador's prison model,

A corporal at a maximum-security prison was left injured after an inmate serving a murder sentence attacked him.

Eric King served almost two years at the federal super-maximum security prison ADX Florence in Colorado.

Forgiveness therapy in prison will reach a very small percentage of the nearly 2 million people locked up in the U.S. in 2025—and that is not likely to change. While prison psychologists and chaplains are aware of the enormous need, Griffith says “our criminal justice system is not set up to actually deal with this.”