A federal judge sentenced a Baltimore City landlord to 13 months in prison followed by eight months in home confinement for ...

The Statesman Journal spoke to one of five people suing the Oregon Department of Corrections for its solitary confinement ...

Cuban political prisoner Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara spoke exclusively to USA TODAY days after being freed from a Cuban jail ...

Activists and the DOC differed in their descriptions of what it’s like to experience solitary confinement in the Wisconsin ...

Robert Maudsley has spent most of his life in prison and complained about his treatment in a call to family ...

A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative contends that involuntary commitment is increasingly functioning as a ...

Joey Lee, 50, will be released on 10-year conditional probation following a 90-day stay in Beltrami County Jail, as his eight ...

A man says he endured freezing cold conditions while held in solitary confinement at a Michigan ICE detention center. He was ...

The last surviving member of the group behind the November 13, 2015, Paris terrorist attacks, Salah Abdeslam was sentenced to ...

A Lake County judge on Wednesday sentenced Cortez Morehead to 24 years in prison after he admitted confining a woman in a Gary apartment and causing the death of her four-month-old fetus. The attack ...

Another man held in New York state prison has died in a violent incident, the third such death in five days, police said.

Columbia Legal Services has filed a class‑action lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Corrections over what it calls an extreme and unlawful form of solitary confinement at the ...