Critics of the US criminal justice system have often pointed to the “tough on crime” politics originating during the Nixon ...

Trump signed an executive order in February encouraging their resettlement in the United States. As justification, he cited a ...

O’Callaghan has signalled a legislative response including a new Bill which he says will be the most significant reform of the asylum system in the history of the State. Much of the focus has ...

More than 35 years after they killed their parents in Beverly Hills, Lyle and Erik Menendez are closer than ever to freedom. Meditation classes, mural painting and mentorship may help. Lyle, left ...

One windy January afternoon Katie Jackson stood on the West Steps of the Capitol as she described how a man locked up in a California prison managed ... that attempted to reform when prisoners ...

A prison reform advocate says she warned staff at a Tucson prison that a prisoner told her he needed to be isolated so that he wouldn't kill anyone. She says her warnings went unheard because he ...

City Council Minority Whip Nicolas O'Rourke recently visited a Philadelphia prison and saw an inmate wheeled out during a medical emergency. The bedsheets stained with the person's blood stayed ...

Virgil Griffith, a former Ethereum developer jailed for attending a crypto conference in North Korea in 2019, was released from prison and is on his way to a halfway house, according to his lawyer ...

Men deported by the United States to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison are living in “the same” conditions as convicted gangsters, prison director Belarmino García said on Tuesday ...