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A federal judge has found the extreme heat in Texas prisons that don’t have air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional.” ...

Convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson is facing execution June 12 even as he fights in court to be returned to federal prison to serve a life sentence. The Oklahoma Court of C ...

A Catholic friar with a White Plains-based order was sentenced to five years in federal prison for a nearly decade-long scheme in which he obtained more than $500,000 in donations by claiming to ...

As California’s prison population surged, so did prison violence. “You learn that in order to survive, you yourself then have to become predatorial,” Morris says. “And then, you then ...

In a weeklong hearing that sought the order for air conditioning while the lawsuit proceeds, people who were formerly incarcerated testified about their experiences in hot prison buildings where ...

Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right. Gauri Gupta, 17, documents a refuge for young dreamers in a Mumbai slum. By The ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

March 26 (UPI) --U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem toured an El Salvador prison where hundreds of ... favor of a lower court's restraining order against the Trump administration ...

Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.