Inmate Kevin Coit alleges staff SCI Smithfield ignored pleas for help and taunted him when he was in the throes of depression ...
LGBTQ+ advocate organizations say they're working as quickly as possible to ask a court to stop the Alberta government from ...
A federal judge in San Francisco drastically limited the scope of a lawsuit last week filed by a San Francisco nonprofit and several individuals against the city and county, seeking to prevent the ...
Wouldn’t that be cruel and unusual punishment? They might even do some bonding and create a few lifetime memories in the ...
Public camping is now banned in Sterling as city officials try to address issues that have arisen with Sterling's growing homeless population. The Sterling City Council passed an ordinance adopting ...
The Indiana Supreme Court has denied a request to stay the execution of man convicted in the killings of his brother and ...
If the 13-year-old boy's $500,000 bond is posted, a judge said additional conditions like GPS monitoring and house arrest will be required.
A crumbling correctional facility in Hutchinson lacks air conditioning and has small cells. State prison officials say Kansas ...
But that ban hadn’t been enforceable since at least 2018, when a federal court ruled that criminalizing homeless individuals ...
Weems v. U.S. 217 U.S. 349 (1910) — Court held that what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment had not been decided, but that it should not be confined to the “forms of evil” that framers ...
But despite their joy, the couple have faced cruel comments from trolls. “I get a lot of hate online, at this point I feel like a punching bag,” the New York-based nurse said. "People say I ...