Catherine Greig evaded authorities with James "Whitey" Bulger for 16 years, paying for transients' identities while living in ...

Kara Gotsch, Executive Director of The Sentencing Project, discusses the ongoing challenges and progress of ending mass incarceration in the US, advocating for capping sentences at 20 years and ...

Today in History for July 28: In 1540, King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed, the same day Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. In 1576, Martin Frobisher's ...

Nonprofits in McDowell County, West Virginia, face severe challenges due to federal funding cuts. Once a thriving coal hub, ...

After watching data sets be altered or disappear from government websites in unprecedented ways, statisticians, demographers ...

Three years after the Supreme Court opened the door to state abortion bans, most U.S. adults say abortion should be legal — ...

In February 2024, prison officials launched a new group recreation program at the Polunsky Unit, the state's notoriously ...

An analogy could also be made between the “foreign” migrant workers in the Gulf, who have no local citizenship or rights, and the Palestinians under Israeli rule in the West Bank or Gaza. Like the ...

In greater numbers than ever, children hollowed up by hunger are overwhelming the Patient's Friends Hospital, the main ...

New federal data confirms what we already knew - Louisiana has a serious corruption problem that's costing taxpayers real ...

This article has been revised to reflect the following clarification: Col. Erick D. Lord is replacing Col. Derek Oakley. BOX ...

Justice Department officials were scheduled to meet Thursday with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of ...