The US carried out a double state killing on Thursday, with two states executing intellectually disabled death row inmates.

I was relieved because I was like ‘ok he’s in jail now, he’s going to be ok, he’s safe.’ But I guess I was wrong,” Thelma said. “ The jail did not protect him. He was not safe in jail.” ...

Yellowstone County is looking for new ways to reduce the strain on their jail capacity. This week, the county’s court system ...

A circle of criminal justice advocates have long pushed to create an independent body to monitor the Arizona Department of ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...

According to the ACLU, federal courts have the authority to appoint a receiver to take over the management of prison health care operations to address the issues raised by the monitors and help the ...

Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons ...

The men, who were seeking asylum in the U.S., accused the Bureau of Prisons of providing inedible meals and spoiled milk, ...

Pregnant inmate Caitlyn Macrery is reporting inadequate nutrition and prenatal care at Perryville State Prison as ACLU moves to provide more oversight to what they call constitutional and human rights ...

The ACLU and federal court monitors continue to step in to implement systemic healthcare reform at Arizona state prisons.