The New York City Council is expected to approve a bill that would ban solitary confinement, despite continued opposition by…
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A report from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that, as of midyear 2022, while at least 30…
The family of a man who died after starving in an Indiana jail while being held in solitary confinement for…
Since 2006, at least 14 Mississippians have died after being placed in jail during a civil commitment process, a common…
The fourth person to break out of a city jail this year in Philadelphia escaped from the city’s industrial Correctional…
Five former correctional officers, and a former lieutenant, at the Southern Regional Jail in West Virginia have been indicted by…
On Friday, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Damian Williams, joined lawyers representing people detained in New York City jails in an…
An inmate who escaped a Georgia jail last month and the woman who allegedly helped him now face federal charges,…
Convicted rapist Leonardo Lopez Jr. has escaped from the Watonwan County jail in southern Minnesota jail and remains on the…
A Webster County, Iowa Board of Supervisors study into whether their existing jail is meeting the county’s needs, and what…