The Lafayette Parish Jail has 739 beds but only 512 are available due to legal mandates requiring certain inmates to be ...

Twenty-three years after prisoners won the right to vote, Sen. Bernadette Clement visited nine correctional facilities in ...

The City Council is considering spending $1.1 million on a measure aimed at speeding up the closing of Rikers Island — a bid ...

Virginia's juvenile justice director is raising questions about how one legislator obtained information about the facility through youth formerly incarcerated there.

The Jacksonville Fraternal Order of Police shared a statement on Wednesday regarding the ongoing investigation into an ...

Over half of India's prisons are overcrowded, with 176 of them housing four times the number of inmates they were sanctioned to hold. Two prisons in Delhi's Tihar Jail have 400% occupancy. India's ...

Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.

Nine jurors were picked Wednesday on the second day of jury selection in Harvey Weinstein's #MeToo rape retrial.

Stacy Davis, one of the longer serving inmates in the Will County Jail, whose armed robbery and carjacking case has yet to go ...

The brother of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber has been handed a plastic spork to eat with and moved back to Belmarsh ...

Average monthly bookings at the Jim Hogg County facility, located between Laredo and McAllen, has dropped by more than half ...

A seven-mile section of Ward County 14 is scheduled to be paved this summer, creating the first leg of a future paved roadway ...