Ms Justice Biggs told Ms Tuohey that she was “sorry” but that her job as sentencing judge was to take in a number of factors ...

More than a year after Hong Kong’s homegrown national security law, commonly known as Article 23, came into effect, the ...

Nearly a decade ago, New Orleans officials hailed their new jail as a harbinger of change.

Faulty plumbing work dating to the construction of the decade-old Orleans Parish jail caused recent – and ongoing – pipe ...

The five-story jail in downtown Newton has been mostly vacant since 2019, when the commissioners began paying Morris County ...

Dick Marek, president of the Historical Society of Windham County, said displays are on a continuum from the Abenaki to forts ...

The New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped from earlier this month is experiencing “significant flooding” from what a ...

Economists Question G.O.P. Bill: Why Increase the Deficit in Good Times? Huge deficits are already making bond investors nervous. Economists warn that could make it harder to respond to future ...

An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail was discovered hanging from a vent in his cell Tuesday in what was the second death in the same day at the facility. William C. Cash, 39, was found ...

Carl A. Butcher, 59, was sentenced to 180 days in jail Monday by Lincoln County District Court Judge Cindy R. Volkmer. Butcher pleaded no contest to possession of a controlled substance ...

The Pennsylvania System came up with the idea of solitary confinement. The goal was to have prisoners contemplate their ...

CCTV video shows inmates running through the loading dock at the Orleans Parish Justice Center in New Orleans on May 16. (Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office/Handout via Reuters) ...