Corrections officers in New York say their working conditions are dangerous and they are forced into overtime. They have ...

Cinematic portrayals of inmates being thrown in a dingy, small, unlit cell with no running water and only a slit in the door for occasional food for years on end, is not the reality in New York state ...

Tony Evers proposes sweeping prison overhauls and a closure as prisoners' families say it's not enough. Republican state lawmakers ... rare stroke while in a solitary cell at the prison, said ...

Tony Evers says he has not visited any of the ... in solitary confinement. The death comes after prison staff began intermittently shutting off the water to prevent him from flooding his cell ...

With Trump back in the White House after having promised during the campaign to unleash “the largest deportation operation in ...

And this strengthens our ability to help bring challenges to unjust immigration policies and practices across our entire practice at the local, state and federal levels.” Asked whether SPLC ...

Picture: South Carolina Dept of Corrections Earlier this month ... The Guardian reported that he was “locked in a solitary cell narrower than his arm span and cut off from nearly all human ...

A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the death penalty using nitrogen gas in the coming weeks.

Albay County Sheriff Craig Apple said the Legislature needs to reevaluate the solitary confinement law because it is making prisons more dangerous. The HALT legislation limits the amount of time that ...

Louisiana’s state-run youth detention centers have reported significant decreases in assaults, something officials attribute to a new detention facility for particularly at-risk youth and enhanced ...