Families of murder victims Tylik Pugh and Nathaniel Wiggins are enraged Gov. Phil Murphy let their loved ones' killers out of ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results ...

Five California correctional officers who were accused of sexually assaulting incarcerated people over the last dozen years remain employed by the state, according to a new audit from the state ...

While prison disciplinary policies do not cite periods directly, the PPI report identified at least six types of prison policies used to punish menstruating people: These include rules concerning ...

Amnesty International said Thursday the use of a confined space called the “box” at the migrant detention facility in Florida ...

Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system—including near total isolation.

Justice chiefs are facing calls to adopt a more “humane approach” after it emerged that inmates with intellectual and learning disabilities have faced harsh prison punishments almost 200 times in just ...

Workers at the Texas federal prison camp housing Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell have been fired for leaking emails in which she described the cushy conditions — and the Democratic ...

ROCHESTER — A Stewartville man won’t see jail time for breaking a 7-week-old's leg while dressing him. Jeffrey Michael Phillips, 43, was ordered by Olmsted County District Court Judge Erin Lindhart ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Solitary confinement, also known as “the hole,” “the box,” or “the cage,” isolates incarcerated people from the general prison population. The practice is unregulated, costly, and ...

Leslie Soble, with Alex Busansky and Aishatu R. Yusuf. New Press, $20.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-62097-840-5 Food is a way to “control, punish, and shame” in America’s jails and prisons, ...

Florida leads the nation in executions this year, setting new modern-day records. The state executed Edward J. Zakrzewski on Thursday — carrying out its ninth death sentence this year — surpassing its ...