Currently lodged in Meerut District Jail, Muskaan made the request to the Jail Superintendent on Saturday, seeking legal ...

Israeli strikes across the southern Gaza Strip killed at least 19 Palestinians overnight into Sunday, including a senior ...

Palestinian officials say Israeli strikes across the southern Gaza Strip have killed at least 19 people overnight into Sunday, including a senior Hamas political leader.

As they studied two years of prison-inmate data, Laura Dague and a team of fellow health researchers noticed that one ...

By the time the officer confided in me, I was hearing rumors of abuse in our isolation unit: officers withholding food; ...

Brig. Gen. George C. Turner, Jr., the Commander of the White Sands Missile Range, and Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Cordery, the ...

El Salvador's notorious maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center is harsh, dangerous and cruel. And that's just what its supporters say.

A former Idaho prisoner who once worked in construction has sued Idaho’s prison system and its for-profit private medical provider after his fractured hand was left untreated, alleging that the ...

Security forces managed to suppress the rioters and regain control of the institution, but a number of convicts managed to escape ...

Two men on Mississippi's death row were told the state Supreme Court would not rehear arguments in their cases.

A federal judge has named a receiver to run California’s troubled prison mental health system. Colette Peters, a reformist ...

Prison officials often say that strip searches are necessary to keep contraband, including weapons and drugs, outside of prisons. This is a worthy goal, but research suggests that strip searches don’t ...