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

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 ...

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.

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

This week the Supreme Court left the door open for Trump to continue invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport people.

This past Saturday at Squeaky Wheel, an artist nonprofit organization that provides equipment, resources and education for ...

The peacocks’ screams penetrated the impassive walls of the courts and there was an intervention. In jail, Gulfisha began ...

But the poetry is not limited to the protagonist’s words, which appear as intertitles throughout the film; it is also there in the images captured of him, his family, classmates and his small ...