In a federal lawsuit filed this week, inmates accuse prison officials of retaliating against prisoners who complained about the conditions.

Analysis of Canada's Prison Needle Exchange Programs underlines how it makes sense, in multiple ways, to open more.

The reasons people can’t sleep behind bars can vary widely. Sometimes, the prisons are too cold in the winter or too hot in ...

A lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Minnesota alleges unlawful punishment of Ramsey Kettle, 33, a man known to them who has ...

A lawsuit filed Friday alleges nearly a dozen correctional officers at a central Minnesota jail carried out "horrendous abuse" against one of its inmates.

A rotating steel drum of pie-shaped prison cells inside a cylindrical cage. On each of three floors, there’s only one way in, ...

The Durham County Detention Center is facing a major problem, as it’s been under fire watch since July 3 due to a broken fire ...

At last Tuesday’s hearing, Judge Subramanian subsequently ruled prosecutors could not use the 19 pages they photographed while raiding Diddy’s jail cell for Friday’s bail hearing ...

I went through this door and I ended up in a whole prison cell with 200 people sleeping on the floor and just a bad smell. "I said, 'What's this, you said I was going to get out,' and they just ...

I went through this door and I ended up in a whole prison cell with 200 people sleeping on the floor and just a bad smell. 'I said, 'What's this, you said I was going to get out,' and they just ...

Crown prosecutors have dropped charges against three peace officers accused of negligence in the overdose death of a man in an Edmonton police jail ... check the window of the cell door.

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