In May, 10 inmates escaped from a jail in New Orleans, highlighting the facility’s chronic problems. Derrick Groves was at ...

The man’s lawsuit says the acts were retaliatory because he took part in a class-action lawsuit against the prison.

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

Crammed into a cell where men stood shoulder to shoulder, Jamien Palmer languished 22 hours without eating or sleeping at Baltimore’s Booking and Intake Center — after a judge had ordered his release.