The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed a lower court's decision to dismiss the appeal of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) records request on June 28, 2016.
Florent Bayala sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after it failed to properly respond to ...
Three Massachusetts state prisoners have been placed in segregation in apparent retaliation for their prison reform activism.
Timothy Muise, Shawn Fisher and Steven James, all incarcerated at the medium-security prison MCI Shirley, were taken from their cells late at night on March 23, 2016 and transferred to three different Massachusetts ...
A longtime Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) guard was ordered to pay $1.5 million to a female prisoner he had raped, though he did not face criminal charges for the assault.
Timothy Ware, 40, a former guard at the Decatur Correctional Center (DCC), sexually assaulted 25-year-old prisoner Ashley Robinson in ...
A number of federal prisons in Canada are cutting library hours and library staff, limiting access to books, making it harder to improve literary skills to prepare for reintegration to society.
Correctional Investigator Howard Sapers told CBC News, "Access to books is really important, and what we are seeing is ...
Missouri's nine most recent executions have been carried out by killing prisoners with Midazolam, a drug that the state's Director of the Department of Corrections has stated in a sworn deposition that it had no intention to use.
Department of Corrections Director George Lombardi said in a January deposition that ...
While combating idleness and restlessness in America's prisons is certainly necessary to avoid disruptions and violence, how this is accomplished is up for debate.
Lawmakers in New York State said no to a proposal this month, during the last legislative session, made by Governor Andrew Cuomo that would allocate $1 ...
Iran's dismal record on human rights has been reinforced once again, via the latest wave of mass executions, prisoner abuses, and clampdowns on those who stand against its theocratic regime.
On August 4, 2014, 40 prisoners were killed at Shahr-e Kord prison in an intentional slaughter when firefighters were denied ...
Arkansas' Benton County Jail has, for years, served its prisoners three cold meals a day. It has been doing so despite several lawsuits, and renewed requests that it serve hot meals, from the community. The jail had no plans to serve its prisoners hot food, especially since the jail has ...
The Michigan Department of Corrections has opened a prison museum -- at the still-in-operation State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson.
Opened June 25, 2014, the Cell Block 7 Prison Museum charges $15.00 for adults, $10.00 for a local museum society's members, and $8.00 for children ages 5 through 12. ...
On at least 601 occasions in the first three months of 2014, men who appeared at the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to register as sex offenders were turned away, because police were too busy to register them. On numerous occasions, the would-be registrants were later arrested for failing to comply ...
