Children are curious. They ask questions. A few weeks ago a little girl asked me about the “crack” in my chest: the scar from heart valve surgery in 2010. Sometimes it’s difficult to know ...

Lawyers say the death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy ...

Inside Out Reentry Community art show "Art from the Inside Out" showcases art from incarcerated Iowans fostering community and breaking stereotypes ...

The war artist-reporter and founder of Action Syria returns to the streets of Damascus and Aleppo 12 years on from when he was last there. Here, he captures the stories of the people he meets and thei ...

A man who was arrested with over 100 dogs and equipment at his Georgia home got the maximum sentence last week. Prosecutors ...

François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...

A line of white buses carrying Palestinian prisoners set to be released Thursday left Ofer prison in the West Bank. The buses made their way toward Bei ...

Roger Hallam is serving a five-year sentence for advocating direct action during a videoconference. It hasn’t stopped him.

It’s a facility meant to isolate people, and also to blend in. These drawings are evidently meant to reassure Chinatown residents who worry that a borough jail will be a forbiddingly alien ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A gunman who shot and wounded three people at a busy food court in the heart of downtown Atlanta in June has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Jeremy Malone on Friday pleaded ...

Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy has questioned whether Maine's public defense agency has done enough to ensure people have lawyers ... criminal defendants from jail who have been denied ...

At least 24 people have died in the jail’s custody over the past six years, according to federal and state records and news reports. Even before that, in 2018, a U.S. Marshals Service ...