Prison populations and staffing levels have dropped by 50% in recent decades. Now, Gov. Hochul wants the authority to shutter ...

Report finds racial disparities in New York law allowing involuntary treatment for mental health. Solitary confinement survivors seek change.

Many women are in prison for killing their abusive partners. Some lawmakers are considering bills that would require judges to give people shorter sentences if abuse drove their crime.

Today is the 90th day of 2025. There are 275 days left in the year. 1995: Tejano singing star Selena, 23, is shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by founder of her fan club. Yolanda Saldivar is ...

The United Farm Workers union, founded by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong, is helping farmworkers organize in ...

Lawyers for a Florida death row inmate Michael Tanzi seek to delay his execution due to his morbid obesity, arguing that it ...

The U.N. considers solitary confinement torture. Yet it remains widespread in U.S. prisons and jails, where 122,000 people ...

Gary Anderson hit Domingo Tapia for reasons never explained, sending Mr. Tapia into a coma and Mr. Anderson to prison. Mr.

The former corrections officers and now defendants in the Robert Brooks beating death case are set to appear in court Monday ...

Leonel Moreno, 27, was flown off to Venezuela this week after President Donald Trump resumed deportations to the country.

Mary Favors is still plagued by nightmares from the days her husband beat her, choked her, and verbally and sexually abused ...