It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated mental illness or substance abuse. A new law will help them get Medicaid.

Ashley and Joshua Drew admitted they locked a 16-year-old boy in his bedroom and withheld food. The boy lost mobility in his ...

The brothers who gunned down their parents in 1989 have a few glimmers of hope in what has become a protracted process to see them freed — and none come from L.A.'s new D.A.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is getting ready to ask private prison companies to bid for contracts to re-open family ...

The president looks set to re-introduce the method of detention, which some critics labeled "inhumane" and "outrageous" after ...