SC Legislature provides no oversight of county jails, where disabled, other inmates suffer, die due to inadequate staff, ...

LINCOLN — A Nebraska group that advocates for the disabled has joined the call for reforms in the use of solitary confinement in state prisons and for better mental health care behind bars. Disability ...

Dr. Megan Carter, left, addresses reporters after speaking at an Indiana Parole Board clemency hearing for Benjamin Ritchie on May 12, 2025. Disability rights advocates said Indiana death row inmate ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared inclined to side with the state of Alabama during ...

The Arkansas Department of Corrections at a Sept. 2, 2025 meeting Credit: Brian Chilson Arkansas’ prison administration agency will enter into a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over ...

Regarding the news reports stating that according to Lisa McEvers, North Dakota labor commissioner, "it's too soon" to tell whether Cass County jail inmates can be barred from filing discrimination ...

Disability Rights Connecticut found that the Connecticut Dept of Correction failed to protect women with mental illness from ...

States can sometimes be sued for damages by disabled inmates, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday in resolving the first clash over states' rights under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. In a unanimous ...

Legal scholar Upendra Baxi has often said that the term social action litigation (SAL) is more appropriate for what is ...

The investigation alleges the DOC failed to properly act to address allegations that prisoners have been subjected to sexual abuse by correction officers.

A number of correctional officers at York Correctional Institution have been accused of sexual misconduct and charged or ...