After an attempt to decriminalize drugs made the addiction crisis in Oregon even worse, local Christians are pleading with ...

The DOJ launched a civil rights investigation into conditions at the Fulton County Jail after several inmates had died in a ...

The advocacy group Prisoners Legal Services of Massachusetts called on Gov. Maura Healey to implement a series of reforms at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, including increased ...

Over the past decade, the federal government has repealed numerous mandatory minimum sentences for criminal prosecution, and ...

Trousdale County with a population of about 12,000 is Tennessee's smallest county by area at 117 square miles. The county ...

Paul Patterson, the boss of the European arm of Fujitsu - the Japanese company that developed the faulty Horizon system - is ...

Other states, including Nevada, are deleting references to slavery in their constitutions and banning forced prison labor.

Most children jailed in the Northern Territory are Aboriginal, and the new government is reducing the age that can happen.