In a long and emotional session on Saturday, the Maryland House of Delegates advanced a bill giving more incarcerated people ...

The law regarding the standard of proof required to find a provincial inmate guilty of a disciplinary offence changed Friday.

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decided on Friday that the standard of proof required in major disciplinary offence proceedings for inmates would be raised from a 'balance of probabilities' to ...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit considered whether allegations of a prison officer’s destruction of a prisoner’s ...

The Wisconsin Assembly passed a slate of criminal justice related bills Thursday, including a requirement to revoke probation ...

House Bill 1362, a bill that would find any undocumented immigrant who is arrested or apprehended for a criminal law guilty ...

Australian cinema has a real love for crooks and the underbelly and we pump out such a large number of feature films and television set in prisons that I wonder if we have more prisoners on ...

Former Manchester United and Scotland footballer Denis Law died on January 17 at age 84. The man called the 'The King' and 'The Lawman' spent 11 years at Old Trafford, with his 237 goals in 404 ...

Four years ago, Bandera County Judge Richard Evans noticed his rolodex of criminal defense attorneys had shrunk to single digits, threatening his ability to offer legal counsel to poor residents ...

the investigation published by ProPublica and Montana Free Press caught the attention of law enforcement. Criminal investigators with the Montana Department of Justice launched an official inquiry ...

The Supreme Court (SC) is revisiting the Rules on Criminal Procedures after receiving inputs from persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in various detention facilities across the country. As part of the ...