The United Nation’s Mandela Laws defines solitary confinement as 22 hours or more a day “without meaningful human contact.” ...

Federal and state governments offset budget shortfalls by forcing incarcerated laborers to work to maintain the very prisons ...

University boards appointed by the Texas governor soon could have new powers to control the curriculum required of students ...

President Donald Trump used his pardon power to grant clemency to a wave of individuals this week who had been convicted of ...

Butler County police agencies received $500,000 in new state grant money to support new and existing body worn camera ...

Talented football players enter the NFL, expected to perform at the highest level, or be phased out of the league entirely.

A bill introduced recently in Congress would codify a requirement that truck drivers be able to sufficiently read and speak ...

Citizen activists could find it harder to get initiatives on next year's ballot in some states. Lawmakers in about a dozen ...

The House of Representatives voted to turn off the Statue of Liberty’s “lamp beside the golden door” and send the “wretched refuse” back to their “teeming shore.” The tired, the ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed President Trump to continue collecting tariffs under an emergency powers law for ...

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...