This Florida Prison Guard Allegedly Paralyzed an Inmate. Now He's Been Arrested for Child Molestation
Inmates say Keith Turner abused them for a decade. Now children have stepped forward with complaints of molestation.
Inmates say Keith Turner abused them for a decade. Now children have stepped forward with complaints of molestation.
"We are a prison system that's overstuffed and under-guarded, and that is a lethal combination of policies," says state Sen. Jeff Brandes.
But can the city commit to reducing its jail population—and will Rikers' infamous culture just be transplanted to the new jails?
If you think a map of the moon might help an inmate escape, you might be a prison censor.
Cheryl Weimar, 51, is now a quadriplegic after what a lawsuit describes as a "malicious and sadistic beating" by Florida prison guards.
Activist Nury Turkel discusses the vast network of camps that may hold over a million Uighurs in western China.
Dean Higgins claims he was put in a cell that regularly flooded with raw sewage for seven months after he bit a guard while having an involuntary seizure.
They're the latest to plead guilty in the Mississippi Department of Corrections bribing scheme.
The search raised Fourth Amendment concerns.
Slowly but surely, some of the most glaring problems of our criminal justice system are being addressed.
It's not illegal for inmates to have marijuana, but it's still a felony if they try to smoke it.
Paul Manafort isn’t deserving of torture. Neither was Kalief Browder.
This is the nature of government. It can't stop the flow of illicit substances in a sealed and militarized building that's under its total control.
Fellow inmates did more to help ReGina Thurman than her guards and nurses.
Navy Rear Admiral John Ring's legacy will likely be defined by his funding requests to build a new prison for aging inmates.
Incarcerated people are already paying their debt to society. What good does it do the rest of the population to take away their right to have a say?
David Friedman’s Legal Systems Very Different from Ours explores the costs and benefits of various legal systems across time.
"Feeling cute, might just gas some inmates today, IDK."
Failed drug tests can send people on probation or parole back into prison cells.
Annual exoneration report shows growth in amount of time served and increasing levels of official misconduct.
He's now representing himself in a lawsuit.
A bill to stop the dangerous practice reaches the next step.
Gov. Rick Snyder's clemency record could have been a lot better.
This monument to the war on terror is still open, and it's costing taxpayers a fortune.
The justices were wrong to reject a religious discrimination claim in a case where a person sentenced to death was not allowed access to a Muslim cleric at the moment of death. But the decision was not the result of anti-Muslim bigotry.
It has been nearly four years since the young man passed away.
Criminon says it's a secular program to rehabilitate inmates, but critics say it's a recruiting pitch for Scientology.
Federal shutdown politics leads to really bad journalism about exactly two meals.
Meanwhile, meet a psychologically scarred man who disfigured himself while serving 22 years in solitary in Illinois.
Jails and prisons are punishment enough without throwing dangerous and unhealthy food into the mix.
Watch the Oxford-style debate hosted by the Soho Forum.
Showtime recreates infamous 2015 caper from upstate New York.
Women prisoners are more likely to receive solitary confinement and other harsh punishments for minor infractions like "reckless eye-balling."
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: "Keeping prisoners in 'near-total isolation' from the living world [...] comes perilously close to a penal tomb."
Civil liberties lawyers worry that sensitive documents could end up in the wrong hands.
The 13th Amendment outlaws slavery, but not for prison inmates.
He has prior felony convictions, but 20 years still seems harsh.
Valentino Dixon has been proclaiming his innocence for decades. After a golf magazine brought attention to his case, people started to listen.
Florida prisons completely ban Prison Legal News magazine. Now the publication is asking the Supreme Court to "vindicate the First Amendment."
Matt Welch interviews Brown (and others, including ex-Reasoner Lauren Krisai) from 9-12 ET.
"For some of us it's as if we are already dead, so what do we have to lose?"
The death penalty may surface as a key issue in the upcoming gubernatorial election in Louisiana.
After national reporting standards were implemented, substantiated sexual assault claims rose by 63 percent.
Incarcerated prisoners are counted where they're jailed for representation purposes, even though they usually cannot vote.
Some unusual amicus briefs filed in support of cert. in Allah v. Milling
Rep. Diane Black has proposed legislation reclassifying the offense.