At the center is Democratic Controller Malia Cohen, who sits on the state Board of Equalization — which oversees fee ...

12. Louisville's jail is the only lock-up in Kentucky where the population is over 50% Black. Poverty is a central issue.

Foreign countries stepped up efforts Sunday to establish contacts with Syria's interim rulers, a week after Islamist-led ...

A recently released Prison Policy Initiative report, using data from the Jail Data Initiative, reveals that in 2023 there ...

In the international skill assessment, the information processing skills of every third Latvian resident were assessed as ...

Bullock Prison in Union Springs, Alabama, opened in 1987 and is designed to hold 919 prisoners.1 Alabama Department of ...

Editor's note: This reporting contains graphic descriptions. SAYDNAYA, Syria -- We've just been to the Saydnaya prison, one of the most notorious in the world, according to Amnesty International ...

Only those who have lived it can know the terror of severe acute mental illness when it strikes. It’s an experience that can ...

This is a period of our lives when we learn the skills needed to understand social norms and expectations – something time in prison is ill-equipped for. Not only are prisoners under 25 still maturing ...

Tulsa County has reduced the number of women going to prison by 72% ... while the rural areas make up about 60% of the population. This may be a celebratory moment, but obstacles remain in ...

By Emily Smith Harvey Weinstein’s legal team fear he will die in the “torture chamber or medieval dungeon” Rikers Island Prison ... placed its incarcerated population in “unconstitutional ...