Wrongfully imprisoned persons lost a total of 1,849 years of their lives before being cleared in 2021, according to the newly released annual report from the National Registry of Exonerations. …
Federal court-appointed monitors said jailers working for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department routinely violate use-of-force policy. In a recent report, the monitors said jailers regularly punch inmates in the …
It is no secret that the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country on earth. There are myriad reasons why that number is so high, and opinions differ …
As part of a new pilot program, San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies at a county jail will wear body cameras following a state audit that found that the deputies did …
A federal court has awarded Ju’Zema Goldring $1.5 million in a lawsuit Goldring brought against the city of Atlanta and police officers Vladimir Henry and Juan Restrepo. The two stopped …
The family of Tiffany Davis has sued Muskegon County, Michigan, Muskegon Sheriff Michael Poulin, and others, claiming Davis died because they failed to provide adequate medical care while she was …
Majority want unvaxxed locked in their homes, close to half want people jailed for questioning jabs Free Thought ProjectIt is the mission of the Free Thought Project to foster the …
A New York state judge ordered a pretrial inmate at New York City’s beleaguered Rikers Jail to be released last week after finding that the incarcerated man’s “credible testimony and …
Wishma Rathnayake moved to Japan from Sri Lanka with a dream of teaching English. A little less than three years later, she died in a Japanese detention facility for illegal …
Maurice Monk was arrested in June for shouting threats, not carried out, at two bus drivers in the same day after both told him he had to don a mask. …