Around 60 prison staff, prisoners and former inmates of HMP Dartmoor have launched legal action over radon levels. Solicitor ...

A woman serving a life sentence for child sex abuse has filed a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina's prison policy of ...

From yesterday's order by Seventh Circuit Judges Diane Sykes, Frank Easterbrook & Michael Brennan in Doe v. M.S.: Plaintiff ...

CODEFENDANT. BRAD WATKINS, IS RESOLVED. THE FAMILY OF AN INMATE WHO DIED AT METRO CORRECTIONS IS SUING THE JAIL. RICHARD GRAHAM DIED FROM A DRUG OVERDOSE IN MAY OF 2024. HIS FAMILY FILED A WRONGFUL ...

A federal judge last week agreed an incarcerated man could sue a prison guard for allegedly putting him in danger and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Eight inmates at a ...

Two Nebraska inmates sued the state's new corrections director Friday, alleging overcrowding at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution is resulting in the intentional infliction of emotional distress ...

Nearly half of Arkansas’ death-row inmates filed suit on Tuesday in Little Rock to bar the state from executing them with nitrogen gas, with the litigation coming on the same day that the new ...

Julie Montpetit didn’t see it coming. Not her newfound passion for criminal justice reform, and certainly not her current ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of nearly 5,000 inmates -- the killers, robbers and rapists of long ago who today are the veterans of Virginia's prison population -- claims they have been unfairly and ...

The court filings also gave a glimpse inside the prison unit, describing it as "an open unit, meaning that they have freedom to move around various places in the unit during the times they are not ...

Julie Montpetit didn’t see it coming. Not her newfound passion for criminal justice reform, and certainly not her current predicament: blocked from talking to the man she loves, a man ...