The state’s prisons unconstitutionally coerced prison labor by levying severe punishments — including solitary confinement — against prisoners who refused to work, Denver District Court Judge ...

A transgender woman incarcerated in New Hampshire’s state men’s prison is suing the state’s Department of Corrections for housing her with men and for denying her gender-affirming care. As Valley News ...

Three Alabama prison inmates featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary have filed a federal lawsuit alleging their abrupt ...

In 2018, voters formally abolished slavery from the Colorado Constitution with a ballot measure that eliminated a century-old exception for prisoners.

Serafini was questioned by prosecutors on Monday, Feb. 9, in his quest for a new trial after being convicted of murder in ...

The city's juvenile jails are extremely violent and unsafe, the result of a deeply ingrained culture of violence in which guards routinely violate constitutional rights of teenage inmates and subject ...

By ordering the charge dismissed with prejudice, which the appellate court said is the only remedy for convicting someone ...

Crumbling infrastructure has forced the closure of a low-security prison in San Pedro that has housed a host of infamous inmates over the years including Al Capone and Charles Manson, the Federal ...

A grand jury report into the death of Haywood Dixon at York County Prison in 2023 reflects similar findings from the death of Everett Palmer in 2018.

Facing a pending lawsuit from the California Attorney General's office over dire conditions in the jail system, officials at ...