A 29-year-old homemaker and mother of a nine-year-old boy has filed a complaint against a teacher of a private school, alleging corporal punishment. According to the complaint lodged by Pooja Pradeep, ...

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona’s prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and ...

The Christian communal movement has long faced accusations from former members who allege harsh discipline, forced labor and isolation from the outside world Google Maps A controversial religious ...

Ex-MLB pitcher Dan Serafini was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2021 murder of his father-in-law and attempted murder of his mother-in-law. In a Placer ...

Alex Kuhnhausen had not eaten in days. His lips were cracked and dry, a prison nurse dispatched to his solitary confinement cell observed. His wife sat waiting in the visitor room at the Washington ...

Sarah Pender was convicted in 2002 and six years later, she went on the run Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

Four inmates at a Southern Nevada prison died in the span of a week while another inmate at a Northern Nevada prison also died, state corrections officials announced Friday. In separate news releases ...

A landmark case in a Los Angeles federal court ended with a guilty verdict. The defendant was a Syrian officer from the former regime of President Bashar al-Assad. He was charged with torture from the ...

Guatemala City (AFP) – The government of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, known for a harsh crackdown on street gangs and dissent, is holding dozens of political prisoners, a rights group charged ...

Years after voters amended the state's constitution to ban forced labor in prison, a court ruling could finally make Colorado change how prison guards "compel and coerce" work.