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By Monica Cosby Image by Jared Rodriguez This story is the sixth piece in the Truthout series, Severed Ties: The Human Toll of Prisons. This series dives deeply into the impact of incarceration on families, loved ones and communities, demonstrating how the United...

By Julie K. Brown Two corrections officers have been arrested after allegedly spraying an inmate in the face with chemicals and locking him in a supply closet, still covered in toxic residue as he begged to be let out, documents show. The officers, guards at Libe...

Three prisoners captured, 17 shot dead, and 57 still at large in a mass jailbreak from Buimo jail, according to reports. Prison guards have killed at least 17 prisoners after a mass breakout at a jail in Papua New Guinea (PNG), according to reports, with dozens of inmates s...

By Walter Pavlo, Forbes It has been over two years since I wrote about Jamila Davis, a young woman who was prosecuted and convicted by then U.S. Attorney Chris Christie (current New Jersey governor) for mortgage fraud.  The "victim" of Davis's case was Lehman Brothers, which ...

MILFORD, Mass. (AP) — Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, acquitted of a double murder just days ago, died after hanging himself in his prison cell Wednesday morning, Massachusetts prisons officials said. Hernandez, 27, was found by guards in his cell at the Souza-Baranowski C...

An Elgin hairdresser who was expected to enter a plea Monday on charges of bringing illegal contraband into a penal institution instead is seeking to have the felony charges dismissed. Her attorney, Patrick Calihan, filed the motion during Monday's court appearance in DuPag...

By Terry McConn A locally notorious convicted felon, who faced about three decades in prison for multiple crimes last year culminating in a vehicle pursuit by law enforcement, received a shorter sentence of 24 years Monday afternoon. That’s because Cager J. York ...

By Karen Rivedal  Years after fixing similar problems in other parts of the building, facilities staff have begun installing filters to address elevated lead levels in drinking water reported last year in the Dane County Jail’s aging cell block on the sixth and seventh floo...

By Rachel Hinton While many students were relaxing or seeing family over their spring breaks, a group of 12 DePaul students was teaching legal lessons to teenagers at the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) as part of a collaboration between three law centers to help...