Blair County coroner Ray Benton says an autopsy has confirmed the cause of death for a female inmate who was found in her ...

The directors behind four of the year’s most acclaimed films confront politics, violence and the limits of neutrality at the ...

The lawsuit alleges the then 17 year old was repeatedly sexually assaulted during the 45 days of quarantine during his prison ...

Floyd Bledsoe went to prison for a crime he did not commit. He celebrated 10 years of freedom by opening Bledsoe Serenity ...

The rapid collapse of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the northeast of the country this week triggered ...

Life in prison is not as action-packed as they show in the movies; in fact, most of them are just misconceptions. These ...

What if an authority figure directed you to pull a lever that delivered a painful shock to an unseen victim? If you’re like ...

Marks is charged with 1st-degree Battery, a Class B felony punishable by 5-30 years in prison; and Fleeing (with serious injury), a Class D felony punishable by up to 12 years in prison given the ...

In 1975, Michel Foucault's resonate treatise Discipline and Punish conceptualized the "carceral archipelago," positing a pioneering theorization of how social ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

When we think of an Australian farmer, we often still conjure up an image of a bloke in a hat, perhaps leaning on a fence post. If women make an appearance at all in this picture, it's usually as a ...

A female prison officer had 'intimate relationships' with inmates and 'smuggled cannabis and tobacco' into jail, a court heard. Kayleigh Robson, 29, struck up inappropriate romances with prisoners at ...