Judge Maria D. Hernandez imposed a $180 restitution fee for the accused, who was in custody and appeared in court for a ...

The prisoners write in carefully lettered script or on old electric typewriters. There are sometimes grammatical errors or misspellings. But the language is direct. They describe facing Stage 4 cancer ...

A federal appeals court has found that prisoner health care at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola met standards set by the Eighth Amendment,.

Over the past decade, Minnesota's prisons have experienced officer assaults, lockdowns, and chronic staffing shortages. They have faced allegations of substandard medical care, inhumane living ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump certainly should not be the poster boy for the Excessive Fines Clause. Though his half-billion-dollar win ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, a series of Supreme Court decisions and a new law sought to curb "frivolous" prisoner lawsuits and give more deference to prison officials. Together, they changed the legal ...