A Civil Grand Jury found that booking arrestees into the Monterey County Jail can sometimes take hours, pulling deputies and ...

Illinois counties have continued to launch new mental health courts, and advocates call for more. Champaign County is the ...

Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, Emily Bazelon talked with Judith Resnik about her new book, Impermissible Punishments: How Prison ...

FOX5 toured the Clark County Detention Center to see how the jail notifies ICE about foreign-born inmates through the 287G ...

Peru's planned purchase of 12 F-16 fighter jets from a United States firm has triggered a new political crisis in the South American nation.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Two New Mexico state prison inmates are suing the New Mexico Corrections Department, arguing that current policies amount to an unconstitutional ban on books and other reading ...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed executive orders to restore the state's process for commuting prison sentences. The state has not commuted a prison sentence since 1995 under then-Gov. Tommy Thompson.

A gang has been jailed after teaming up with a corrupt prison officer to smuggle drugs, mobile phones and USB sticks into a south‑east London prison. Jason Thompson, a guard at HMP Isis, was suspended ...

Charleston, SC, March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In Coyote Valley’s thrilling sequel, Wed, White, and Blue, Keri's survival in prison becomes increasingly precarious as Dean is released from ...

Rapper Mystikal pleaded guilty to rape this week in Louisiana. The "Shake It Fast" rapper reportedly beat, raped and robbed a woman during a financial dispute at his home in 2022. He is already a ...