A New York State Supreme Court judge has ruled Mayor Adams broke the law when he refused to implement elements of a city law ...

A sharply divided Iowa Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court's decision dismissing a former prisoner's claim for damages ...

Wiretaps. Retaliation. $1.8M in total verdicts. A former corrections officer just won big in a civil rights case against ...

A federal judge ruled last week that claims could proceed against five federal prison employees who allegedly attacked their ...

They’ve asked the federal judge overseeing the lawsuit to direct the government to bring him to Maryland while he awaits ...

The man brought a rifle to the “No Kings” rally, prompting an armed safety volunteer to open fire and accidentally kill a ...

At least 80 people have died in sheriff’s custody over the five-plus years since Darryl Dunsmore went to federal court to challenge conditions in San Diego County jails.

Chief U.S. District Judge Hala Jarbou on June 6 dismissed the lawsuit brought in 2019 by the family of Seth Zakora, in federal court in Grand Rapids, records show. Zakora died from a fentanyl ...

Judge gives go-ahead to lawsuit over hot conditions at prison in Miami-Dade U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams on Wednesday issued a 30-page ruling that said inmates at Dade Correctional ...

A federal judge has rejected a request by Florida corrections officials to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging that the state has violated inmates' rights due to hot conditions at a prison in ...

A planned ICE detention center in Kansas may soon house immigrants after a judge dismissed the city of Leavenworth’s lawsuit against the private prison company.