In the 1990s, as New York City’s crime rate climbed, the NYPD turned to statistics—creating CompStat—to predict patterns and better fight crime. In 2015, as violence has surged in New York City’s ...

The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of an Arkansas prison inmate who had contended that prison officials refused to restore his inmate classification and he was denied entrance into a ...

Orleans Parish jail staff are now asking arrestees booked into the facility questions to determine whether they are vulnerable to sexual assault, Sheriff's Office leaders said Thursday. The change to ...

When he returned from a medical leave in early 2016, psychologist Bradley Boivin discovered a troubling pattern among Waupun Correctional Institution inmates who had been held in solitary confinement.

Federal inmates who have been denied relocation to a lower security facility have the right to challenge the denial via a habeas corpus application, a legal remedy available to individuals who believe ...