A suit on behalf of six undocumented immigrant mothers in Texas accuses the state's health department.
A judge last month found probable cause for a former North Augusta, South Carolina, public safety officer to face criminal charges in the death of an unarmed motorist.
Local and state governments aim to offer options outside of the criminal justice system for the newly convicted.
Border crossings by unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors were down 58 percent in the first seven months of the current fiscal year. Most came from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
South Africa has dealt with rising anti-immigrant sentiment in recent months.
Securus, a billion-dollar tech firm, will no longer force jails to replace in-person family visits with its video visitation system.
The violence stemmed from a conflict between rival Albanian and Pakistani gangs.
At jails across the country, sheriffs are threatening to literally rip phones out of the walls. Here's why.
An anonymous phone message, left by an inmate in Vermont's largest prison, prompted officials to place the jail into "modified" lockdown.
Navinder Singh Sarao traded from his parents' modest home in west London.
Attorney Bob McCulloch faces charge of misconduct in conducting the Darren Wilson investigation.
Defense ministry officials say Libyan security forces likely approached the vessel, but a Sicilian fishing trade group believes otherwise.
A recent study examined U.S. states' policies regarding immigrants' access to health services, higher education and government IDs.
Prison “wages usually begin at $0.50 per hour,” a far cry from the $40 million contract he signed in 2012 with the New England Patriots.
A white South Carolina patrolman charged with murder for shooting a black man in the back as he fled after a traffic stop will not face the death penalty if convicted, a prosecutor said on Monday.
While the U.S. is hoping to prevent another border crisis this year, Mexico is cutting the flow at its own southern frontier.
A domestic war crimes court had sentenced Mohammad Kamaruzzaman to death in May 2013 after it found him guilty of war crimes.
Boston resident faces multiple larceny counts and making false statements to the government to collect money intended for bombing victims.
Neil Moore had registered a bogus website in the name of the investigating officer.
Former NFL star Darren Sharper admitted in court to drugging and raping women in California and Arizona and was expected to plead guilty in a similar Nevada case in plea deals prosecutors say will land him in prison.
The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing a drug used in lethal injections after death row inmates in Oklahoma filed a lawsuit.
The suspect told police that after he bought "the wrong chemicals," he decided to send them to the White House.
