A woman in St. Louis County has filed a lawsuit alleging her civil rights were violated when, after being arrested for…
Jane Doe, a woman who smuggled out clothing with DNA evidence on it after she was raped by a guard at Rikers won her…
Who among us hasn’t held off resigning from our role as an elected official after the public discovered you did black…
New York City is planning to start housing inmates according to their gender identity, reports the Observer. By early…
Martin Shkreli is a huge idiot and now he’s in jail for it. (Also, there were a bunch of other things he did that…
Stanford rapist Brock Turner will be released from jail on Friday, September 2, according to jail records. That’s three…
The Justice Department is planning to end the use of private prisons in the United States, the Washington Post reports.…
The latest available statistics from the Justice Department document 1 in 36 adults, or 6,851,000 people, as having…
Barack Obama earned a new presidential record by commuting the sentences of 214 people this week, the highest number of…
Last week, Ohio attorney Andrea Burton was given five days in jail for contempt of court by Youngstown Municipal Court…
In December of 2015, a woman named only as Jenny was a star witness in the case against serial rapist Keith Hendricks,…
A woman named only as Laura has been in a jail in Qatar since mid-March, having been convicted by the courts for…
Owen Labrie, now 20, was released from jail on Monday, May 16. Labrie, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a…
A new report from a prisoner advocacy group says that corrections officers in Massachusetts are illegally shackling…
Socialite Tinsley Mortimer, 40, whose title as a Manhattan’s It-iest It Girl disintegrated along with the market in…
Earlier this month, Vice contributor Susan Zalkind spotted convicted sex offender Owen Labrie, 19, on a train in…
Some county jails in Tennessee are now providing long-acting, reversible birth control to inmates who request it.…
Cumberland County Jail has had some problems contraband getting in. That’s why the Maine jail’s security protocols have…
Rodney Cotton is $750,000 dollars richer today, but the money he’s won from New York City will likely do little to help…
On Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration released an $18 million plan that will, starting next year, allow…
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