Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes launched his campaign for governor as the likely Democratic primary frontrunner ...

Maryland will create a commission to study potential slavery reparations in the state, after lawmakers overrode a veto by ...

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences ...

For the approximately 450,000 people released annually from US prisons, the chances are high that they’ll be back in a cell in 5–10 years. About 61 percent of state prisoners who were released in 2008 ...

A review of more than 100 court cases found some immigrants saw harsher punishments, even when they have fewer prior ...

The director of Idaho's prison system has laid out plans to increase protections against sexual abuse of inmates and to increase accountability for those accused. The move comes ...

Rapper Nicki Minaj took to X to slam California Gov. Gavin Newsom and suggest he will not be successful if he runs for ...

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández freed from U.S. prison after President Donald Trump grants pardon for drug ...

BRIDGEPORT — A Colombian man last residing in Florida was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison Thursday for his ...

Many philosophers, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists have been interested in human races as social constructs. If ...

The White House is denying President Trump’s gushing remarks about Rep. Elise Stefanik at an Oval Office event Friday are a ...

A recent attempted rape on Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus has rattled confidence in student safety, writes ...