Years of campaigning led to the release of 81 women imprisoned under the country’s strict reproductive laws, but the suspension of civil rights by President Nayib Bukele is fuelling a new wave of crim ...

A woman is suing the state of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Corrections, alleging the state prison system forced ...

The law library at the women’s jail on Rikers Island reopened this week after the resource had been shut down for nearly a year as correction officials struggled to manage a swelling jail population ...

A 19-year-old man is charged with raping a UGA student in downtown Athens after allegedly offering to walk her home safely ...

A month after ICE agents sent the young Ecuadorian mother and her 7-year-old daughter to a sprawling detention center 1,300 ...

The department said that about 0.18% of people in immigration detention are pregnant. Given that ICE had held about 60,000 ...

A case of horrific child abuse was in a Calgary courtroom Monday as Justice Ken McLeod considers a fit sentence for a 41-year-old man who pleaded guilty last spring to aggravated assault, forcible ...

William Mellon earned his share of honors serving in both the Navy and the Air Force, but friends and family say his positive ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. As Soham killer Ian Huntley fights for his life following a bloody attack by a fellow inmate, ...

From SA’s hottest chef setting Adelaide alight, a doctor fighting cancer through research, one woman tirelessly fundraising ...

As ICE rushes to turn warehouses into detention centers, Joaquin Castro wants to close one meant for families ...

EL PAÍS travels to La Esperanza, the town where the Honduran activist was murdered on March 2, 2016, for opposing a ...