Then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed the California Values Act into law in 2017, limiting state and local law enforcement's ...

The criminal justice system, designed for punishment rather than rehabilitation, routinely entangles individuals with mental ...

An eight-episode season brings the realities of prison life — past and present — to listeners beyond the Walla Walla ...

Jail-based programs aim to reduce load at state psychiatric hospitals, allow people to proceed more quickly through the court system.

Troy Hayden got an exclusive tour inside one of the largest prison hospital facilities in Arizona and heard from officials ...

In the city of Del Mar, near San Diego, most agree the train tracks must move off eroding bluffs. But debate over its new ...

Four suspects, one who remains a fugitive, are accused of smuggling more than 20,000 people from Guatemala to the U.S.

Authorities described the Torko Organization as one of the largest human smuggling operations in the United States.

NYS corrections officers who have been on a prison guard strike for two weeks could now lose their jobs and their health care.

Banning classic books, fluoride and plant foods labeled "milk" or "meat" together with curbing teen violence; regulating ...