In the harsh corridors of the American prison system, stories of fear and survival echo through the walls. Among them is the haunting tale of the youngest and most feared inmate to ever walk those ...

A federal judge has denied a legal attempt, for now, to prevent the U.S. government from transferring former death row ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has done numerous things in his second term that have been deemed authoritarian. But there's one line he hasn't crossed, at least not yet. He has not wilfully, clearly, ...

Faith leaders and people of faith are among the best-positioned to mount a powerful countermovement — and should make every ...

The majority of people who commit crimes will stop doing so as they age, and the U.S. imposes life sentences on a staggering ...

A federal judge considers if the president’s executive order barring hormone treatment in the Bureau of Prisons is cruel and ...

A federal judge on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment ...

I hate coming here,” Robert Ricks said. Ricks sat at the focal point of a hearing room in the New York state legislative office building. He’d traveled to Albany last Wednesday to testify for a second ...

For many felons, prison ends, but the damage doesn’t. They struggle with post-incarceration syndrome — a PTSD-like condition ...

American actor Cooper Koch achieved major success after playing Erik Menendez in the biographical crime drama series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

Incarcerated Americans experience less humane treatment than the POWs held in the United States during World War II, UVA ...

The United States spends 30 billion dollars on foster care each year. Yet, according to author Claudia Rowe, the results have too often been damaging for the children in that system.