The women's section of Rikers Island is getting a redesigned and more kid-friendly visitation room ahead of Mother's Day.

Prosecutors in Donald Trump's hush money case say they expect to call just two more witnesses, laying the ground to possibly ...

A Rhode Island prison inmate says he was unconstitutionally denied critical mental health and drug addiction treatments ...

The downward spiral of one inmate, Markus Johnson, shows the larger failures of the nation’s prisons to care for the mentally ...

Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs of East Harlem has used his experience to help people reinvent themselves, including a high-flying ...

A man has been charged in connection with an assault at Toronto South Detention Centre last month that left an inmate dead. Toronto police said in a news release that the incident occurred on ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The five deputies responsible for the death of an Erie County inmate while he was in custody in 2012 have been ordered by a jury to pay the family of the man $1 million each.

The organizations, which include the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, Amos House and Black ... as well as a string of inmate suicides that happened at the ACI last year.

(FOX40.COM) — California prison officials said they are searching for an inmate who walked away from ... the influence causing bodily injury or death.

The plan to replace the notorious Rikers Island jail complex with borough-based facilities, including an expanded site on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, has seen its estimated cost surge to a ...

Harvey Weinstein was hospitalized Saturday for a battery of tests after returning to Rikers Island jail ahead of a court appearance next week. The 72-year-old former Hollywood powerhouse was taken ...

Harvey Weinstein was hospitalized Saturday for a battery of tests after returning to Rikers Island jail ahead of a court appearance next week. The 72-year-old former Hollywood powerhouse was taken ...