Every day, approximately 600 students across the U.S. are physically punished at school — hit with wooden paddles or struck by objects by adults charged with their education and care. While corporal ...

March 16, 2012 — -- It is one of the most controversial methods of child discipline, but spanking in school-- usually with a wooden or fiberglass paddle -- is still allowed by law in 19 states.

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

The Lagos State House of Assembly on Friday held a public hearing on the Lagos State Correctional Service Bill 2025, a landmark legislative effort aimed at transforming the state’s justice system from ...

Prisoners in the Florida Department of Corrections system are often held under many of the same inhumane conditions present at Alligator Alcatraz. My uncle is one of them. Prisoners in the Florida ...