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

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 ...

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.orgRonald Miles got sick when he watched Rep. Ken Weyler, R-Kingston, accuse Sununu Youth Services Center sexual abuse victims of lying. “It is such an ignorant, cruel, ...

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

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

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 ...

Philadelphia incarcerates a higher percentage of teenagers than any other major American city. Once in the system, kids are often abused by those entrusted to protect them.

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 ...

“Wisconsin disproportionately incarcerates people of color, and we know that those disparities run from the very start of a criminal process at the stops and arrests of folks all the way through ...

Laurie Lists are called Exculpatory Evidence Schedules now. They are the secret lists containing the names of law enforcement officers in NH with a history of dishonesty, excessive force or ...