Drugs continue to be "routinely available" at a privately-run prison for men, a report has found. The Independent Monitoring ...

A federal judge took the rare step last week of concluding an incarcerated, self-represented plaintiff should be compensated ...

The trial of a sheriff’s deputy who was indicted for violating the civil rights of an inmate ended in a hung jury on Wednesday. Jeremiah Manuyag Flores was indicted in January for the use of ...

A faulty belt in an air handler on the roof of the Blair County Prison caused smoke to enter the building, prompting Phoenix Volunteer Fire Department to deploy to the building late Wednesday night, ...

Two cases involving ICE are in court in Chicago this week. In one, a judge ordered conditions at a detention facility be improved while a ruling is still expected in a case over agents' use of force.

A federal judge has approved a final $6.75 million settlement in a class action lawsuit involving violence against prisoners at Massachusetts maximum security prison.

The inmates said the officers carried out a weekslong campaign of violence in 2020 at the state’s lone maximum security ...

Lawyers for the incarcerated people say a state prison in Shirley has been "plagued with violence" since it opened in 1998.

More than 12,400 inmates across California have been fasting since Monday, to protest solitary confinement and call for improved prison conditions. The strike, involving roughly two-thirds of the ...