The City Justice Center opened in 2002. Since then, 45 people have died in custody, including 29 who were pronounced dead ...

USA TODAY's initial analysis of previously secret records shows how numbers of in-custody overdoses, murders and suicides ...

A Salinas Valley State Prison inmate has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a fellow inmate, per Monterey ...

A law meant to help victims of domestic violence often results in their arrest. One woman details surviving abuse and the ...

Riverside County jails are plagued with some of the nation's highest murder rates and repeated security failures, an ...

One victim described Evans in a letter as a predator who has “hunted children, for his depraved sexual appetite, for at least 26 years.” ...

While he did not celebrate Mass or wash the feet of inmates, Pope Francis made his customary Holy Thursday visit to a ...

A facility built for progress reflects ‘decades of neglect’ and the city’s deepest struggles, from mental illness to systemic ...

An explosion reportedly rocked the Maximum Security Custodial Centre (MaSCC) in Maiduguri on Sunday night, April 20, 2025, ...

In 1990, the closure of the Virginia State Penitentiary ended nearly 200 years of holding state inmates in downtown Richmond.

I learned music theory through workshops at New York’s Sing Sing prison. I earned my stripes by singing for boisterous crowds ...