From the daily newsletter: the constitutional rights of embryos. Plus: evidence of starvation, dehydration, and neglect in ...

Murder and betrayal fill the air as Stephanie Smothers and Emily Nelson reunite for an extravagant wedding in Italy in the ...

Asaad Shlash, Hassan Abd Alrahman, Faraj Birkdar and Haitham Alkatreb served long jail terms in the 1990s. Students and ...

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

A bill aimed at making jails safer has died in the Legislature, leaving inmates at facilities around the state at continued risk of dying in the custody of local law ...

After driving himself to jail to begin serving a criminal sentence, a Monticello man was found to be heavily intoxicated, authorities said, and now faces two DWI charges.

Award-winning poet laureate and former probation officer, Simon Armitage, has crafted an ode to those working in the ...

Between the ages of 14 and 17, Mikal spent over 1,800 hours in solitary confinement in Virginia — more than 75 days. At that ...

Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha was scheduled to visit Little Rock for a poetry reading and book signing promoting “Forest ...