Thousands of federal inmates may be allowed to continue serving their sentences at home after the coronavirus pandemic comes to an end, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The decision reverses ...

FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a Tribal Nations Summit during Native American Heritage Month, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Nov. 15, 2021, in ...

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Voters emphatically approved two local ballot initiatives to limit the use of solitary confinement at the Allegheny County Jail and ban the use of “no-knock warrants” by Pittsburgh police. With nearly ...

This year the PROTECT Act, otherwise known as Senate Bill 1059, offers Connecticut an opportunity to address conditions in Connecticut state prisons and jails that the United Nations Special ...

New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams is trying to have it both ways: supporting the use of solitary confinement in city jails without using the term and accepting the current mayoral administration’s ...

A recently passed ballot measure required Allegheny County Jail officials to release their first report on solitary confinement July 7, 2021. Nearly 300 people were held in isolation at Allegheny ...

Tammie Gregg is deputy director of the ACLU National Prison Project. Donna Lieberman is executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Earlier this month, New York enacted a law affirming ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not adequately monitor and track its use of solitary confinement inside immigration detention facilities across the country, according to a watchdog review ...

Read full article: VMI warns of sounds of rifle fire for graduation activities FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a Tribal Nations Summit during Native American Heritage Month, in ...

Goodbye to the 70-degree weather, but above-average temperatures are here to stay. Read full article: Live election results map: 2024 Michigan General Election on Nov. 5 FILE - This combination of ...