The United Nation’s Mandela Laws defines solitary confinement as 22 hours or more a day “without meaningful human contact.” ...

Federal and state governments offset budget shortfalls by forcing incarcerated laborers to work to maintain the very prisons ...

President Donald Trump used his pardon power to grant clemency to a wave of individuals this week who had been convicted of ...

Butler County police agencies received $500,000 in new state grant money to support new and existing body worn camera ...

The gubernatorially appointed boards that oversee Texas universities soon could have new powers to control the curriculum ...

A bill introduced recently in Congress would codify a requirement that truck drivers be able to sufficiently read and speak ...

Citizen activists could find it harder to get initiatives on next year's ballot in some states. Lawmakers in about a dozen ...

The House of Representatives voted to turn off the Statue of Liberty’s “lamp beside the golden door” and send the “wretched refuse” back to their “teeming shore.” The tired, the ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed President Trump to continue collecting tariffs under an emergency powers law for ...

Damon Hewitt is the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Before joining the ...

The Lowell lawmaker threw a procedural Hail Mary to try to keep President Donald Trump's domestic policy mega-bill from ...