A backlog of defendants deemed mentally unfit for trial persists despite public policy changes to address the crisis.
In Chicago, Memphis and elsewhere, residents allege a surge of federal agents and military troops is making it harder to ...
Some states keep adding beds in already troubled facilities, while others are trying alternative approaches to detention or ...
Months before his death, Ralph Marcus explained how a COVID-era leg injury led to a rare bone cancer that didn’t have to be ...
A Black freshman’s apparent suicide on campus is one of at least nine Black men who have been found hanging from trees since ...
Policies that dictate what happens after a death behind bars often add new layers of pain — and financial and logistical ...
It has never been done in this way before,” said Sarah Saldaña, who led ICE when Obama was nicknamed the “Deporter-in-Chief.” ...
Trumbull County sheriff will now lead the investigation into the Cleveland woman’s restraint death, meeting family demands ...
Commissioner Burl Cain said the Mississippi Department of Corrections’ Criminal Investigations Division will review all ...
Five families reflect on the possessions they got back, and the ones they didn’t.
Editor’s Note: Lance Shockley was executed on Oct. 14 at Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. He was declared dead at 6:13 p.m Central time. For Father’s Day ...