Court-appointed monitors of Sacramento County jails say a man’s fatal overdose was one of multiple deaths in which deputies ...

State Sen. Dan Stec is making a strong push to strengthen law regarding contraband in state prisons. Stec (R,C-Queensbury) ...

Senator Dan Stec (R, C-Queensbury) is Introducing legislation to make body scanners mandatory for incarcerated individuals as ...

A man died in a Sacramento County jail after deputies and nurses exhibited a “callous” indifference toward his health, ...

Despite having some of the nation’s lowest crime rates, Idaho incarcerates more women per capita than any other state. Women ...

Colette S. Peters, the former longtime director of Oregon’s prison system tapped to oversee the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was replaced last week, the agency announced. Peters had served as director ...

James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

A local radio personality said she feels lucky to be alive and uninjured after an attempted carjacking at gunpoint Friday ...

Understaffed and overcrowded, Texas prisons are experiencing worsening conditions that leave both staff and the incarcerated ...

The bill is necessary, supporters say, because KY incarcerates women at one of the highest rates in the nation. More than ...

Here’s a timeline of how that system evolved. Philly incarcerates Black teens the most by far. In Philly, racial disparities exist in every stage of the juvenile system, with escalating impacts. Black ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the expansion of the prison camp as a detention facility for illegal immigrants.