King County Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention reportedly challenges Washington state employment law following ...

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Harold Wayne Nichols was sentenced to death in 1990 after he was convicted of raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a ...

South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop Friday's execution of a man who killed three people over five days and left taunting messages for police in one victim's blood.

Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in an Alabama jail cell, waiting for court-ordered psychiatric treatment.

A report by Human Rights Watch and Central American rights group Cristosal alleges that dozens of Venezuelans deported from the US to a Salvadoran prison earlier this year were subjected to torture ...

When Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux rejected an invitation to join the federal 287 (g) immigration enforcement program, he made the right call, and the timing could not be more consequential.

In Alabama, that means people charged with less serious crimes, like Clark, “spend more time waiting for a bed than if they ...

The 4 committees go over their findings. “What you all have done is quite literally unprecedented in Delaware County’s ...

"I do not understand the logic and cannot appreciate the wisdom in seeking to sit down with a man who has contempt for you and your people, who considers you and them as being sub-human, who has ...

About 20% of people in Virginia Department of Corrections custody take part in adult education, career training or ...