Brian Rigsby was lying with his right wrist shackled to a hospital bed in Montgomery, Alabama, when he learned he didn't have ...

A federal judge on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment ...

The Village Voice reports on Ricky Wassenaar, who killed fellow prison inmates based on the belief that God told him it would help Donald Trump.

Since the pandemic, the jail has doubled its space for in-person visitation. But each day, it sits empty, not yet open to ...

When Maureen, then 12, spoke out after four years of childhood sexual assaults, instead of receiving safety she was ...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs is on trial for sex trafficking, assault, and racketeering conspiracy. Combs has been in jail since his ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

A prisons union has called for action "before there is a fatality" after an officer was slashed in the neck and another had a ...

James Simmons, the late LPSS Athletics Director, will be laid to rest this Saturday at Good Hope Baptist Church, with ...

Several years ago, when I was an intern physician, I found myself at the train station before 7 a.m. one morning. En route to ...

A federal prison in north Phoenix is investigating an incident that resulted in employees possibly being exposed to an ...