Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are ...

Tajuddin Ashaheed brought the lawsuit against the Colorado Department of Corrections nearly a decade ago, after he was forced ...

JACKSON COUNTY, MI – A man who was sentenced to life in prison for murder when he was 17 and later released is now suing the prison system claiming he was sexually abused. Former juvenile lifer Leon ...

York County Prison, like most jails nationwide, faces rising prison costs due to an increasing number of inmate mental health ...

The families of two women from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation who died in jail have filed separate ...

The Bexar County Adult Detention Center is overcrowded and understaffed. Sheriff Javier Salazar says it's "bursting at the ...

Both Fenumiai and his cellmate, 36-year-old William Farmer, were diagnosed with schizophrenia in their 20s. Their family members say the state should never have housed them together.

After about 20 minutes of us sitting handcuffed against that wall, the cops announced we’d be taken to Santa Rita Jail on ...

The Eagle will be in the courtroom daily for the duration of the trial. Check here for periodic updates on what’s happening ...

The new consent decree ends five years of litigation, installs independent oversight of juvenile jail staff and ends solitary confinement as punishment on children. A group of Nelson Mullins lawyers ...

I arrived at Sather Gate and saw a 5-foot-tall cardboard mosquito sculpture. I was feeling nervous, excited and resolutely ...