The Supreme Court is expected to be sympathetic to the religious rights of a Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were shaved off by ...

The high court’s review of a Rastafarian man’s case against Louisiana prison officials could decide whether inmates can get ...

SPRINGFIELD – Families of Illinois prison inmates and legal advocates spoke out this week against a new program at the ...

Tennessee’s Department of Correction is seeking a $13 million contract increase for the state’s private-prison company amid questions about a riot and federal civil rights investigation. Correction ...

The trial of a sheriff’s deputy who was indicted for violating the civil rights of an inmate ended in a hung jury on Wednesday. Jeremiah Manuyag Flores was indicted in January for the use of ...

Prominent Tunisian opposition figures including Rached Ghannouchi said Friday they would go on hunger strike in solidarity ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Damon Landor. Landor is a Louisiana man who grew long ...

Commissioner Burl Cain said the Mississippi Department of Corrections’ Criminal Investigations Division will review all ...

A New York prisoner accused corrections officers of assault and sexual abuse. State officials deemed his claims unfounded despite footage of the encounter.

The family of jailed politician Jawhar Ben Mbarek say 'his health is deteriorating' after nine days without food.

A lower court judge had temporarily blocked the administration’s policy requiring that passports reflect sex as found on an ...

A law banning prison labor in the late 19th century presaged decades of decline for an institution that began on the cutting ...