Eleven years after the Supreme Court barred states from executing mentally disabled inmates, the justices said Monday they will take up a Florida case over how authorities determine who is eligible to ...

The Supreme Court emphasized the need to recognize and implement the rights of prisoners with disabilities through a humane and rights-based approach. It tasked a high-powered committee to draft an ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama has agreed to make changes at state prisons to accommodate inmates with disabilities. A federal judge in June gave preliminary approval to a lawsuit settlement ...

A Floridian with an IQ as high as 75 can be diagnosed as mentally disabled and be eligible for help getting a job. But on death row, the state says having an IQ higher than 70 categorically means an ...

Jerry Mitchell, Brian Howey, Mukta Joshi and Nate Rosenfield are reporters for Mississippi Today. They have been examining the power of sheriffs’ offices as part of The New York Times’s Local ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The FBI is looking into ...

Three percent of the cells at the Ouachita River Correctional Unit would be made accessible to disabled inmates, and inmates with disabilities would be provided assistance with daily living activities ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A McLennan County Jail inmate being detained for parole violations and three felonies was charged Thursday in a Christmas Eve incident in which authorities say she assaulted a ...

Alabama has agreed to make changes at state prisons to accommodate inmates with disabilities. A federal judge in June gave preliminary approval to a lawsuit settlement agreement between inmates and ...