Incarcerated women in the U.S. are routinely punished for menstruating due to prison rules that fail to account for basic ...

Professor Hadar Aviram of UC Hastings College of the Law will speak on the American prison system and the transformation of punishment as part of the continuing UC Santa Cruz and UC Hastings Social ...

Two men accused of running a scheme to get drugs and phones into Ohio prisons have learned their punishment. Cory Sutphin was sentenced to nearly five years in prison, and Charles Gibbs was sentenced ...

The U.S. Justice Department says it has reasonable cause to believe that Georgia violates the Eighth Amendment by failing to protect incarcerated persons from violence and sexual abuse, and by failing ...

FILE - The Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center is surrounded by fencing in this 2017 file photo in Lancaster, Mass. Two months after two correctional officers were stabbed while working at ...

Article I, section 9 of the Utah Constitution protects incarcerated individuals from both cruel and unusual punishment and unnecessarily rigorous treatment. This case asks whether death-sentenced ...

Lawyers representing incarcerated people say the state’s Department of Corrections punished thousands of people for declining to perform labor required by the state — including punishments that ...

BUTNER, N.C. — A North Carolina federal prison supervisor has been convicted after investigators say he instructed a correctional officer to physically punish a man incarcerated at the institution by ...

Attorneys for a Bernalillo County woman have filed a lawsuit accusing New Mexico Corrections Department of breaking state law by holding her in solitary confinement for months in what she described as ...

Territory prison guards have been accused of using a spit hood punitively, dangerously, and unnecessarily against a disabled man in the grips of a medical emergency.