Solitary confinement is being challenged across the US due to its harmful effects on incarcerated individuals and its failure to improve prison safety, with studies and legal cases showing that it can ...

An inmate at the Stiles Unit, Robert Gonzalez, has died of natural causes, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, after being hospitalized.

Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it.

Authorities are investigating the death of a 58-year-old Beaumont man who experienced a medical emergency while in custody at the West Valley Detention Center. The San Bernardino County Sheriff ’s ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating the death of a 33-year-old ...

Inflation held steady in February, but rising energy prices because of the war with Iran could soon renew upward pressure on costs for American households.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when ...

Monterey County inmate Gabriel Otero was found dead at Pelican Bay; investigators are probing an apparent homicide.

An inmate once sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for an attempted murder of a peace officer in Los Angeles County, and who later was sentenced to life without parole for ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (officials are investigating the death of an incarcerated person at Pelican Bay State Prison as a homicide. Approximately 2 p.m. Monday, ...