The analysis, involving thousands of settlements since 2018, found that the total price tag to the public is more than $750 ...

Melanie Shakarian, director of development and communications at Cleveland's Legal Aid, to step down after 20 years.

A wildcat strike by guards at New York’s prisons, now in its second week, is fueling fears over deteriorating conditions behind bars ...

A City Council bill that would force the NYPD to abolish its criminal gang database would make it more difficult for cops to ...

A 61-year-old inmate died over the weekend at one of the New York prisons where National Guard troops were deployed to replace corrections officers who walked off the job in an illegal strike.

Corrections officers object to even limited constraints on their ability to impose a regime of terror on inmates.

Since 2018, taxpayers have covered $756 million in settlements tied to NYPD misconduct claims, in what critics say is a ...

Melanie Shakarian, attorney and longtime director of development and communications at The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, will retire from Legal Aid on Feb. 28.

Ramon Rivera, accused in a Manhattan stabbing spree, may be unfit for trial based on a psychiatric evaluation.

Her struggle highlights the challenges facing the system, with the Law Society of Scotland claiming a third of legal aid lawyers are due to retire over the next decade. The Scottish government ...