Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy may be released from prison on Monday. He was sentenced to five years for criminal ...

Fourteen months have passed since a drunken driver crashed his pickup truck head-on into Oakland County resident Sawyer ...

Restaurateurs all across the United States have turned decommissioned or disused jails, holding cells, and prisons into ...

Incarcerated individuals face long periods of hard work for minimal pay, and are forced to spend their earnings on expensive commissary items, making it difficult to maintain basic hygiene and ...

A political scandal has erupted in Israel over a leaked video at the center of an investigation into allegations of severe ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Kansas Secretary of Corrections highlighted drugs and cell phones as a major challenge in the state’s annual prison report, calling the problem worse than ever before.

DURING THOSE COUNTERCULTURE YEARS, A LOT OF THE RIGHTS MOVEMENTS, THE WHOLE GOAL WAS TO SEND FREE BOOKS TO PEOPLE IN PRISON. AND THAT’S WHAT THESE VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL DOING IN THE LOWER LEVEL OF THIS ...

The Department of Correction told GBH News it is hiring an independent expert to review the six suspected and confirmed ...

The Republican governor said the facility at McCook — a remote city of about 7,000 people in the middle of wide-open prairies ...

The number of women in jail globally has soared by 17% in a decade, despite leaders' pledges to put fewer women behind bars ...

Current First Amendment doctrine permits courts to judge a claimant’s religious sincerity in a free-exercise suit but prohibits them from adjudicating religious questions. This Note challenges that ...

For more than 20 months during the two-year war in Gaza, Dr. Ahmad Mhanna was locked away in Israel’s prison network with thousands of other Palestinians taken from Gaza. When he returned to the ...