UN experts and independent civil society organisations, including partners in the United Against Torture Consortium, are ...

Assaults on correctional officers in New Jersey’s state prisons are not an aberration, but part of a trend both officials and officers attribute to a dangerous combination of overcrowding, chronic ...

Some protesters against Trump's surges in immigration enforcement sued his administration in December, saying their ...

Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The ...

The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, for the moment, a lower court’s injunction limiting ...

"You don't have a house here anymore. You need to leave." An Israeli soldier spoke those words to Leila E., a 54-year-old ...

The same police action can be a policy violation in one city and standard procedure in another. And most Americans don't know which rules apply where.

Pro tip to Tina Peters and her legal representatives — lying to the public about easily verifiable claims makes your client ...

An inmate in a Solano County state prison is suspected of killing another incarcerated man, the California Department of ...

Appeals in some of Texas’ highest-profile capital punishment cases are set for 2026 as the state continues to maintain a historically low number of executions. The state has been the national ...