The United States is not the only nation that has serious problems with the operation of its jails and prisons. Recently, an amicus curiae made a number of recommendations in a case being considered by the Supreme Court of India, noting poor conditions in Indian prisons. Gaurav Agrawal, who was ...

An unnamed Navy nurse at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that houses alleged terrorist detainees, who was facing expulsion from the Navy for his refusal to participate in force-feeding prisoners, has been allowed to return to his regular duties. The hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo, imprisoned without formal ...

President Obama announced 214 commutations on August 3, 2016, spurring hope that the pace will increase as he nears the end of his term in office. This latest batch, the largest number of commutations issued in a single day since 1900 according to the White House, brings the total during ...

Eleven prisoners from Vermont were the principal participants in a recent disturbance at the Franklin County, Masschusetts county jail, according to Vermont Corrections Commissioner Andy Pallito.

Three other prisoners from Massachusetts also took part in the incident, which resulted in the destruction of furniture, a guard station, a computer work-station, ...

The recent news that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was planning to utilize prisoners to perform work previously done by state employees has ignited controversy from those who feel that such work will reduce the number of public employees.

In an interesting twist, liberal writers and bloggers, who would normally be ...

A recent announcement by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) stated that it had eliminated a previous backlog of over 90,000 prisoners DNA test results. However, a Florida congressman who had drawn attention to the backlog, while applauding the progress, also noted that the backlog had consisted of 295,000 federal ...

Mark Jordan, a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX), in Florence, Colorado, has been denied relief under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. Section 552, and the Privacy Act (PA), 5 U.S.C. Section 552a, after seeking information from both the United States Department of ...

Plaintiff Angelina Cianfaglione's Fourth Amendment claim alleging an illegal seizure and arrest, excessive force, and an illegal strip and body cavity search that occurred incident to a traffic stop in Edgar County, Illinois has survived a summary judgment motion in U.S. District Court, in the Central District of Illinois, Urbana ...

According to the Federal Justice Department's inspector general, arrests of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guards has increased almost 90% in the past ten years, while the prisoner population has grown 25%. The report did not state how many cases originated from private federal prisons. The populations have increased 120% in ...

Trevor Griffith, a prisoner in the New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS), had filed a 42 U.S.C.A. Section 1983 Civil Rights case against the DOCS

alleging mistreatment while he was in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) at Wende Correctional Facility (Wende).

He had initially filed a grievance at Wende ...