American prisons are rapidly graying. Following decades of mass incarceration, exacerbated by the U.S. war on drugs, the ...

A Las Vegas judge sentenced Shayne Sussman, 25, to a minimum of eight years in prison after he stabbed two employees and ...

A man accused of killing five people in Texas in 2023 after a neighbor complained that he was keeping a baby awake by firing ...

Bob Menendez, the disgraced former New Jersey senator, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Wednesday, Jan. 29, for the ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

Vaughn Wright, a fellow inmate of Luigi Mangione at Pennsylvania’s SCI Huntingdon prison, wrote a first-person article for ...

The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that 13 people were currently in its jail on detainers from U.S.

Few trans people receive gender-affirming housing and care in the federal prison system. This executive order would make it ...

People languish for an average of 14 months in jail before receiving the mental health treatment that could allow them to ...

He was declared dead Jan. 19 at around 4:12 p.m. The deaths mark the first two reported deaths at the Harris County Jail this year. At least 10 people died while in custody last year, a decrease ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections has settled two federal civil rights lawsuits filed by people in prison who say their First Amendment rights were violated, according to records obtained by ...