The DOJ launched a civil rights investigation into conditions at the Fulton County Jail after several inmates had died in a ...

Human rights campaigners on Thursday paid tribute to an Iranian activist who killed himself hours after warning he would do ...

A gang member was so violent at MDC Brooklyn — the notorious federal lockup that houses Sean “Diddy” Combs — that he should get a penalty, not a discount on his sentence for the atrocious conditions ...

Brian Vines, 49, allegedly told a fellow inmate his wife was a criminal attorney who could reduce his prison sentence.

A Latrobe attorney is accused of exploiting a jail inmate to get access to her bank account, and then stealing $31,300 from ...

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According to testimony that Department of Corrections Secretary Ricky Dixon gave to state lawmakers last year, 75% of the ...

A lawsuit filed this week by the prison reform advocacy group Florida Justice Institute says that extreme heat in ...

The lawsuit, in part, accuses corrections officials of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and other federal laws ...

The rights groups said inmates suffer from cold ... children, the elderly, and medical personnel, are said to be held in Israeli prisons.

The Elderly Parole Program, established in 2014 via court order to help thin out the state's prison population and ease the cost and burden of aging inmates straining the prison health care system ...