The Fifth Circuit denied a federal prisoner’s motion to be addressed with female pronouns while incarcerated, finding the lower court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the motion and that compelling the use of pronouns at the invitation of litigants could “raise delicate questions about judicial impartiality.
Read moreA U.S. citizen died Monday after more than six years in custody in Egypt, his representatives said, drawing criticism from Washington of its authoritarian ally.
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Burglary is not supposed to be punishable by death. Nor is burglary, armed robbery, selling cocaine or stealing a vehicle. But that is what the mothers of three inmates say was given to their sons, all of whom were killed in prison violence last week in Mississippi.
Read moreMichael Brodheim, a graduate student in public administration, sued the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for information on the racial makeup of prisoners who apply for parole, in San Francisco Superior Court.
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Mississippi authorities were searching for two prisoners believed to have escaped Saturday from one of several prisons rocked by violence that left at least five inmates dead in the past week.
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Thousands of Taliban prisoners jailed in Afghanistan see a peace deal allegedly being hammered out between the United States and the Taliban as their ticket to freedom.
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Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg cut ties with a contractor that used prisoners to make calls for his presidential campaign, he said Tuesday.
Read moreCandace Steel was in the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, awaiting trial on a charge of misdemeanor trespassing when she began to feel birth pangs. She told officers on duty she believed the birth of her daughter was imminent.
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A class of parole violators who claim that a Tennessee county’s bail system is effectively “wealth-based detention” can proceed with their suit against the county and its sheriff, the Sixth Circuit ruled.
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The Sixth Circuit ruled unanimously Wednesday that a muddled grievance process prevented minor inmates in Michigan from filing claims of sexual assault by adult prisoners.
Read moreA federal court in Texas sanctioned the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and its executive director for violating a $4.5 million settlement agreement in which they agreed to fix faulty air conditioning in housing that exceeded 88 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer.
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The en banc Seventh Circuit appeared divided at oral arguments Thursday over whether a Wisconsin county can be held liable for failing to supervise a male guard in charge of female inmates, leading him to commit hundreds of sexual assaults over three years.
Read moreEight inmates filed a federal class action claiming Alameda County and Aramark Correctional Services put them to involuntary servitude and force them to work without pay.
Read moreThe Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a lower court properly dismissed a group of inmates’ claims that a new Department of Corrections rule that prevents inmates from possessing Timberland boots in prison violates consumer protection law. The boots were banned after an inmate attacked and killed a prison guard by kicking him in the head with his boots.
Read moreA former New York inmate claims in a federal class action that two diagnostic companies issued drug tests that produced false positives, forcing her to be kept in the same cell for 11 straight days.
Read moreAn attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to reinstate a mentally and physically disabled Georgia inmate’s lawsuit seeking better medical care.
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While the director of the Bureau of Prisons told a Senate panel Tuesday she has not been briefed on details of an investigation into the jailhouse death of wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, lawmakers pushed back and said the public deserves the truth.
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