Lawmakers are pursuing legislative changes that would keep more people locked up in overcrowded county jails while awaiting ...

With Wednesday night’s victory over the Utah Jazz, the Houston Rockets have clinched a top six seed in the NBA playoffs and ...

Prosecutors say the investigator whose photo Young Thug reposted is currently a witness in a “multi-defendant gang murder” case. The judge explicitly said during a hearing that the investigator was ...

People detained in Vermont’s prisons for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection struggle to call their families and have been exposed to physical violence.

A Venezuelan man was deported to an unsafe prison in El Salvador, despite weak evidence linking him to criminal activity or ...

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University graduate student, was arrested in Massachusetts and sent to the South Louisiana ICE ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The U.S. operates one of the largest and most punitive criminal justice systems in the world. On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state ...

A years-long fight over the temperature inside Texas prisons has entered a new phase. In a landmark ruling issued on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled that keeping inmates in ...

President Donald Trump’ s administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to ...

New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers, weeks ...

With women in antiabortion states dying from pregnancy complications, lawmakers are scrambling to deal with the backlash by ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.