The Mary Davis Detention Home cannot place its residents in solitary confinement after a federal district court judge ruled Sept. 30 in favor of a group of teenage residents who accused Knox County of ...

Clearfield County, Pa. (WTAJ) — “Does the sentence fit the crime?” It’s a question many have asked time and time again following animal abuse and cruelty cases throughout Central Pennsylvania. That’s ...

Sometime Daily Show host and correspondent Jordan Klepper appears to have been in Portland on Sunday to experience an “emergency” World Naked Bike Ride in the pouring rain.

A recent Physical Review Letters study presents a new model for quark star merger ejecta that could resolve whether these cosmic collisions generate ordinary matter or something different. The ...

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A mentally ill inmate at the Mount Olive Correctional Complex in Fayette County has been transported to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, following a judge’s order.

Francess Parnell recalled how her brother, Timmy Dewitt, baked her a birthday cake. The cake was lopsided, 5 inches thick on one side, 2 inches on the other, Parnell recalled. And the cake tasted ...

NY State Senator Luis Sepulveda speaks at a press conference supporting the end of solitary confinement within NYS prisons. He is joined by members of the NY State Senate and Assembly. Credit: NY ...

The New York City Department of Correction has regularly violated state law by illegally confining people in jail cells for over 24 hours at a time without access to proper medical care, a new lawsuit ...

Former Republican congressman George Santos has been held in solitary confinement with no windows for nearly 30 days, according to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who likened his prison conditions ...

A plan backed by President Trump could force far more unhoused Americans into long-term treatment for addiction and mental illness. Experts fear people who aren't dangerous could be swept up.