The lawsuit alleges that Erik Carlson, 29, died on Jan. 25, 2025, after jail staff repeatedly ignored his pleas for medical ...

The federal lawsuit in Louisiana is the third to be filed in connection to Harris County Jail inmates who died after being outsourced to LaSalle Correctional Center, one of the privately owned ...

Assaults on correctional officers in New Jersey’s state prisons are not an aberration, but part of a trend both officials and ...

Isaiah Mark Bailon, a 26-year-old resident of Barstow, was told on Jan. 14 during a hearing in Victorville that he faced up ...

A Devonshire woman who said she accidentally brought cannabis into a prison has been sentenced to a year behind bars. Lavida Codrington, 37, pleaded guilty in November to charges that she brought ...

Once billed as rehabilitative alternatives to prisons, these facilities are the sites of fatal overdoses—like that which ...

A year-and-a-half after the In-Custody Death Review Division was created within a state agency, the office has yet to obtain ...

Federal officials say an immigrant from Nicaragua has been found dead at a Texas immigration detention facility. Immigration ...

This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006 edition of the, The dogs went to the Lassen County Board of ...

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Trump said he’s rejected Diddy’s pardon request, but he’s been saying contradictory things about his old pal for months.