Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run them.

In 1977, Murray was offered a full-time role as the prison’s fine arts instructor, which he held till he retired in 2003 and, ...

In a rare case of a parent being charged after a school shooting, a judge on Tuesday granted a $500,000 bond for the father ...

The thought of prison takes one’s mind to cold, sterile cells, barbed wires, and the weight of past mistakes. It’s easy to ...

Alabama lawmakers debated Wednesday whether to require schools to start their day with the Pledge of Allegiance and a ...

The ACLU and federal court monitors continue to step in to implement systemic healthcare reform at Arizona state prisons.

An American teacher freed from a Russian prison after being convicted of marijuana possession ... a regulated system of legal psilocybin services aimed at promoting mental health ...

A lawsuit filed in December claims that three corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility "planted drugs" on an inmate.

The two had been sentenced to prison on charges of propaganda and ... Their reporting was pivotal, drawing international attention and condemnation. Amini's death in police custody sparked months ...

A new bill, HB 1070, would help correctional officers access the same services as firefighters and law enforcement.

Public defender, DA, judge joined to help Matthew J. Schweichler, who is mentally disabled, mentally ill but also violent, complicating his placement.

A treatment program is available in California for people with a mental illness who have committed a crime, rather than jail or prison. But is it working? Here are the pros and cons.