A new documentary features cellphone footage from behind bars, exposing abuse and neglect that is all too common in America’s ...

Understaffing, outdated facilities and poor management have led to filthy conditions in jails in St. Louis, Cleveland and ...

Roberson’s was the latest case from Texas to produce a small explosion of news coverage, one of many featuring celebrities ...

Stanley Jackson, the attorney representing the families of the three women, was joined by Black Lives Matter Cleveland in ...

Community advocates and surviving family members also want the sheriff to step aside in two other death investigations ...

The case against Robert Roberson, whose execution is scheduled for Oct. 16, is the latest to raise questions about a ...

Every year, thousands of people die in prisons and jails across the country. In Philadelphia, the officials running the ...

The outlets are honored for their series on unsolved homicides by St. Louis Police Department, victims and families without ...

It’s a good time to be an American-born criminal,” said one expert, as ICE’s dragnet now includes thousands of agents from ...

Amid a decade-long court battle, control of Hinds County’s Raymond Detention Center — severely understaffed and rife with ...

As a kid, Joseph Wilson was sexually exploited by someone who was supposed to take care of him. The trial of Sean “Diddy” ...

Hinds County’s long-troubled Raymond Detention Center is now under the control of a court-appointed receiver. Wendell M.