Erik Ramsey’s suicide in solitary confinement highlights rising mental illness and a jump in such deaths in North Carolina ...

James Johnson, who was found guilty of murdering his cellmate Milo Warnock at the Idaho State Correctional Center, has been ...

Gang member Harley Davidson Eruti was languishing at Mt Eden prison after police connected him to a Crips-related robbery ...

A bill in the General Assembly could make North Carolina’s abortion access some of the most restrictive in the nation. House ...

Proponents say the devices have helped address inequities in the criminal justice system. But many defendants have ...

In his disturbing novel 1984, George Orwell famously took readers into a blood-chilling, futuristic nation where the ...

Legislation introduced this week would ban abortion after conception with no exceptions, except when necessary to save the ...

When Anthony Harrison said linseed oil caused a fire that destroyed his workshed, a judge said his story was not believable.

NEW YORK, NY - A 32 percent increase in global executions has exposed fundamental flaws in criminal justice systems worldwide ...

DENVER (AP) — People in Colorado will soon have to pass a background check and complete a state-sanctioned safety course to ...

The number of state executions around the world has reached its highest level in ten years, a new report by Amnesty ...