After a decline following statewide bail reform — and years of reductions prior to that — the county’s jail population has ...

A federal jury in Great Falls unanimously found CoreCivic liable for failing to protect a former inmate who was “nearly ...

A year’s worth of data released by the Sacramento County Department of Health Services show that one-third of people entering ...

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

People with mental illnesses are far likelier to be victims than to commit crimes. But a small number of unprovoked, midday killings downtown examined by the Sun-Times shows big gaps in care for ...

Nothing stings like the death of a favorite television character. Whether it’s an honorable lord with his head on the ...

Rhianan Rudd gouged a swastika into her forehead in a declaration of her love for Adolf Hitler. She had just turned 15. A ...

The fans sold to inmates are just nothing more than air movers. The punishment for their crime is being away from society, no ...

Instead, they increased Marie-Noële’s pain meds, removed her hydration IV and let her die of dehydration over the next six ...

Here’s a select list of convicted American serial killers and notable open or unsolved cases. Serial murder is defined by the FBI as two or more killings separated by a span of time. Serial murders ...

South Carolina prison officials will put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institute in ...