Current and former employees at Jefferson City Correctional Center say the shortage is causing unrest. They blame the state’s ...

An Ohio Supreme Court filing has prompted questions about the personal relationship between a judge and a contractor for whom she has approved hundreds of thousands of dollars for work he does in her ...

Federal agents tossed tear gas canisters, released pepper spray and fired pepper balls at protesters, journalists and other ...

A lawsuit claims the prison food company is cutting institutional meals to force incarcerated people to purchase costly food ...

Weeks after The Marshall Project - Cleveland found escalating violence, Ohio’s embattled youth treatment center is once again ...

More than 30 people with dangerous but treatable ailments — infections, obstructed bowels and asthma attacks — died in the ...

The newly appointed federal receiver has asked the county’s district attorney to move more cases, while the DA has asked the ...

Amid rising ICE arrests, volunteers provide aid — a meal, a bed, gas money — to anyone visiting someone detained in remote ...

Recent legal changes, a Trump-friendly governor and a large immigration detention infrastructure could make the New Orleans ...

When corrections officials aren’t forthcoming with records, coroners can offer families the details needed to find closure or ...

Thousands of people die in U.S. prisons and jails each year. The surviving families are often left asking basic questions: What happened, and could the death have been prevented? Too often, families ...