As North Carolina officials look to reduce their use of solitary confinement, several mentally ill inmates have killed ...

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In a unique alliance, prisoners at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and California district attorneys are championing ...

Dozens of New York lawmakers are demanding that the Department of Corrections to reinstate provisions of the controversial ...

Dozens of New York lawmakers are demanding that the Department of Corrections to reinstate provisions of the controversial HALT Act that limit solitary confinement.

An inmate said to be mentally ill and who cannot speak English has been held in solitary confinement in a Virginia prison for 12½ years, alleges a federal suit filed on his behalf Tuesday.

New York City has lost control of its jails. In May, a federal judge ruled that the city’s jails, including Rikers Island, ...

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Michael McCallion waited years to confront in court the officers he said attacked him in prison. The guards denied the ...

Before he was quickly ushered away by an alarmed press officer, Jose Mourinho made it clear what he demanded from the ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja rejected the evidence sought to be tendered by the Federal Government in the ongoing trial of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and ...