In 1976, longtime Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff looked at the state torturing and killing its own citizens under the Shah of Iran.

Lydia Romero struggles to locate her husband, Julio César Peña, who was detained by immigration agents in California.

A man charged in connection with the 2021 disappearance of a Navajo woman has pleaded guilty to robbery, marking the latest ...

It was November 2023, in a staff break room at South Idaho Correctional Institution, when prison guard Blas Covarrubias ...

Officials have declared that a Texas Black man executed nearly 70 years ago is innocent in a case prosecutors now say was ...

The grown-up son of Tommy Lee Walker was thrilled to witness the Commissioners Court of Dallas County declare the man ...

This week, at least 3,000 protesters are languishing in prisons that activists have described as 'slaughterhouses', having ...

She is a killer. She is a predator who hunted in silence. She is no ordinary Mallika — she is 'Cyanide Mallika', Bengaluru’s most chilling murderer and believe to be India's first woman serial killer.

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — More female inmates joined a federal lawsuit to separate transgender inmates from female inmates at a Texas special needs women’s prison, lodging additional allegations of sexual ...