These young people were met with cruelty, humiliation, violence and fear,” said a government official in Scotland ...

Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies.

A conversation with Paul Bocanegra is awash in cognitive dissonance. How, I wonder, could the congenial middle-aged man sitting across from me at a coffee shop, apologizing profusely for being a few ...

Virginia’s Department of Corrections says it’s in the process of modernizing prison communications -- giving high-tech tablets to 25-hundred inmates at four test sites. Officials have already branded ...

Years after voters amended the state's constitution to ban forced labor in prison, a court ruling could finally make Colorado change how prison guards "compel and coerce" work.

A Las Vegas corrections officer faces charges of domestic battery after he allegedly stopped his ex-girlfriend from leaving during a fight over a watch, slapped her, and threw her into a door, ...

An Alabama man convicted of murder despite having fled the scene of the crime before the trigger was pulled will no longer be put to death. Gov. Kay Ivey announced on Tuesday that she would spare the ...

Even the strongest anti-abortion advocates don't want to punish people for pregnancy loss. Police and prosecutors are finding ways to do it anyway.

A proposed anti-trans bathroom ban in New Hampshire could result in people facing prison time for violating the law.

A member of the National Transportation Safety Board says he has been fired without explanation by the Trump administration.

One week after a jury declined to indict him on assault charges, former Los Angeles Clippers guard Patrick Beverley released a 14-minute video talking about his unpleasant experience while spending a ...