The letter offers a rare first-hand account from a physician regarding the conditions inside Oregon’s prisons, where prisoners and their advocates have long complained of substandard care.

Michael Lamont Lawson, an inmate at Snake River Correctional Institution, died Sunday in hospice care, the Oregon Department of Corrections announced Monday. Lawson was serving a sentence for ...

The two former health care leaders at the Oregon Department of Corrections routinely delayed medical treatment for people in custody, and retaliated against health care staff when they raised ...

The bodies were on found in Long Island - the hunting grounds of alleged Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann. The breakthrough could finally crack some of Long Island's most haunting unsolved ...

The Bureau of Prisons confirmed it is holding some people arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown, though it has not disclosed how many or where. Federal jails in Los Angeles, Miami ...

My understanding of life in prison comes purely from the big screen — movies like The Shawshank Redemption or the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. I am very thankful that this is the ...

Dozens of inmates are crammed into cells in the prisons in the Central American country. Sentences range from 60 to more than 1,000 years for those incarcerated at Terrorism Confinement Centre ...

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