A settlement announced this week now affirms that private immigrant detention facilities are subject to California's ...

Self-described “democratic socialists” are celebrating another wave of primary victories, including the upset defeat of ...

For many people, the word prison brings to mind images of high-security walls, strict surveillance, and harsh living ...

Prison spokeswoman Alondra Gonzalez acknowledged for the first time Monday that the prisoners’ deaths are being investigated ...

The men, who drugged and secretly filmed their victims, were members of an online gang targeting mainly women of Chinese heritage ...

Since he started work as NATO secretary-general almost two years ago, Mark Rutte has spent much of his time trying to keep ...

In his book 'The Midnight Special', author Colin Asher traces how prisons and the criminal justice system shaped American music, from Lead Belly and Johnny Cash to Tupac.

It is called connected ball technology. And it was responsible for one of the most dramatic climaxes to a World Cup match ever. It canceled Croatia’s late equalizer deep in ...

In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace.

If you’re a fan of Nicola Walker, you’ll know she’s pretty good at playing detective. There was DCI Cassie Stuart in ...

The Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, has become the epicenter of protest against President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, with its prominence only growing in recent months ...

GEO Group, a top private prison contractor for ICE, is claiming immunity from lawsuits alleging forced labor at its detention ...