The program will be offered at 1 p.m. June 24.  It is part of the Pro Bono Work to Empower and Represent, or POWER, Act, ...

Prior to its appropriation by communist regimes, International Workers Day — May Day — was first commemorated in honor of ...

The 77-page order by a Manhattan federal judge effectively appoints a federal receiver to correct dangerous conditions in ...

In fact, violence, death, use-of-force, self-harm, and most other metrics of human misery got demonstrably worse at Rikers in ...

Jean Harris says she's on a mission to get justice for her family and also spare others from experiencing similar pain.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex, after a federal judge found the city had failed to stem spiraling ...

The substitute teacher in the Minneapolis district unknowingly arranged a meeting with the leader of Predator Poachers.

Through the receivership order, the city will transfer power over local jails to a third-party expert appointed by the federal courts.

despite repeated orders from Swain and recommendations from a court-appointed monitoring team to improve conditions. "There is no doubt that these less extreme measures have proven futile," Swain ...

Iren Byers, 22, was sentenced May 22 for killing four men during a 2023 shooting spree that moved from Phoenix to Mesa.

CATLETTSBURG An Ashland woman is in Boyd County’s jail on a $200,000 bond after a grand jury indicted her on three counts of first-degree criminal abuse of a child 12 or under. Rachel A. Nichols, 35, ...

Mr. Swain was born in Warren County March 6, 1835. As a boy he lived in Morris County near Dover, and in 1852 came to Newark. The following year he became a clerk in a lumber yard. In 1865 he and ...