A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

The ferry ride out to Alcatraz Island is, as ever, peak San Francisco cold. Even on this sunny June day, it’s cold. Even with ...

Critics say the jail’s cage-like enclosures constitute a form of solitary confinement that exacerbates mental illness and ...

The justices didn’t squash precedent that opens federal officials up to paying damages, but they failed to expand its ...

Nova Scotia resident Lisa Adams was kept for 16 days in a solitary room with no running water or flushing toilet under ...

The former '19 Kids and Counting' star was originally scheduled for release in October 2032, but that date has been pushed ...

Rights activists in Iran fear intensified crackdowns following Israel’s military campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear program ...

Longtime former RFE/RL journalist Ihar Karnei was arrested in July 2023 after the KGB came to his home in Belarus. Freed in a ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He is a powerful figure in the Middle East now and had issued a 'fatwa' or religious decree against US President ...

Israel’s strike on Evin — targeting, it said, “repressive authorities” — spread panic among families of the political ...