Shadowed by scandal after the apparent suicide of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, the Metropolitan Correctional Center faces a fresh round of scrutiny from a Friday court ruling on an unsolved inmate beating death.
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A South African university has come under fire for displaying a painting by a man jailed for kicking a prostitute to death, with outrage brimming in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for women.
Read moreThe Second Circuit advanced a lawsuit Tuesday that challenges how Connecticut counts prisoners when it draws up legislative districts.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit had no patience Monday for officials who shut off water at an Illinois county jail for three days, denying them immunity in a lawsuit brought by inmates who claim they were deprived of adequate drinking water and forced to live without flushable toilets.
Read moreMore than 3,100 inmates will be released from federal custody Friday as a result of sentencing changes made in the sweeping criminal-justice reform bill that became law in December.
Read moreUkraine’s president on Friday outlined the details of an impending prisoner swap with Russia, saying that Kiev is willing to release a jailed Russian journalist in exchange for a Ukrainian film director.
Read moreA former Republican candidate for the New York Senate who was sentenced to prison two years ago in an apartment-rental scam claims in a lawsuit filed Friday that he was forced to strip naked and undergo a body-cavity search as punishment for complaining about inadequate medical treatment.
Read moreDisability rights advocates argued in federal court Tuesday that the state of Oregon should be held in contempt for not meeting the needs of criminal defendants who require mental health treatment.
Read moreAn attorney for a Muslim inmate who says his civil rights were violated when a Georgia prison refused to provide him with a vegan diet conforming to his religious beliefs asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to reinstate his case.
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit ruled Friday in favor of a South Carolina man who claimed he was excessively shocked with a stun gun for refusing to hold still for a mug shot, finding it is unclear whether the force was applied in a good faith effort to get his photo.
Read moreA class of inmates represented by the American Civil Liberties Union brought a federal lawsuit Monday to stop solitary confinement at two maximum-security prisons in Virginia, arguing that a program meant to return prisoners to the general population is actually a veiled attempt at keeping them in solitary.
Read morePope Francis washed the feet of 12 prisoners Thursday and urged them to serve one another as brothers, as he ushered in the solemn pre-Easter rituals made more poignant this year after the devastation of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral.
Read moreA Louisiana inmate whose case led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling extending the hope of freedom to juvenile offenders sentenced to life without the possibility of parole was again denied that freedom on Thursday after more than five decades in prison.
Read moreTennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a bill Tuesday that sends cases where the death penalty has been handed down directly to the Tennessee Supreme Court for review, bypassing the state appeals court.
Read moreAn Iowa judge ordered state prison officials to stop barring inmates’ access to materials that contain non-sexually explicit depictions of nudity while a lawsuit brought by 13 inmates is heard by the trial court.
Read moreThree inmates who challenged a Tennessee prison’s short-lived policy of providing sentencing credits for vasectomies will have their day in court, after a Sixth Circuit ruling Thursday.
Read moreIt’s a sign of how violent Alabama prisons for men have become: Makeshift knives and other homemade weapons are everywhere. Inmates scrounge metal from dish racks, light fixtures and yard fences and fashion them into long knives. Many keep more than one.
Read moreReligion and executions are now oil and water in Texas as the state has banned men and women of the cloth from accompanying the condemned in the execution room in response to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that stayed the execution of a Buddhist prisoner.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed peonage claims against GEO Group from a class of inmates, because they do not owe a debt to the private prison company, but allowed them to press their claim that they are forced to work for no or subminimal wages.
Read moreHaving signed into law a major criminal justice reform bill last year, President Donald Trump on Monday said his administration will shift its focus to making it easier for people to get jobs and successfully rejoin their communities after prison.
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