According to officials from the Public Works Department (PWD), the prison will follow a panopticon-style design, inspired by ...

The state has paid out nearly $900,000 to settle lawsuits tied to double-bunking deaths in recent years. Nebraska's prisons ...

IN CONTEMPT — Federal Judge KATHLEEN WILLIAMS on Tuesday held Florida Attorney General JAMES UTHMEIER in civil contempt, ...

The Legislature's budget-writing committee postponed a vote on funding for the Universities of Wisconsin and passed a ...

Figures have revealed that one prison officer almost every day was assaulted by an inmate while on duty in Scotland’s increasingly violent jails. Scottish Prison Service (SPS) data shows 350 officers ...

Federal immigration detainees from around the world being held at the Anchorage jail report harsh conditions, with limited access to attorneys or their families, according to advocates. Because the ...

Criminal justice advocates and public defenders have criticized Prop. 36, which reversed part of a voter-approved 2014 crime ...

The Alaska Department of Corrections says they’re held under the same conditions as any other inmate in Alaska.

Standing in front of FDC Miami with printed notes from the Herald article in hand, Gimenez said he had not seen any ...

SUGAR LAND, Texas — The lives of 95 convict laborers forced to work on Fort Bend County plantations after the Civil War will be forever memorialized historical marker telling their story. Their ...

VA writer Andreína Chávez explains how US sanctions shaped Venezuelan migration and the racial bias behind Trump’s deportation policies.

The first minister is looking towards independence but must balance government business with calls for a second referendum.