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Pat knew the streets could sometimes swallow kids whole, kids whose parents or guardians couldn’t take care of themselves let alone a child, unchurched kids and neglected kids who ran wild around ...

All told this year, the Education Department under Trump has dismissed thousands of civil rights investigations. During the ...

In do-or-die Bedford-Stuy back in the 1980s, nobody cared, necessarily, if you were a bright Black kid with all the potential ...

A former inmate has warned controversial new Australian laws could have the unintended effect of turning young offenders into ...

Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates? By Jan Ransom Jan Ransom has been covering the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Jail and Prison Oversight Omnibus Bill Friday, which seeks to reform prisons across the state. The reforms in the bill include more cameras in prisons, ...

A group of Venezuelans who were sent to a maximum-security El Salvador prison from the US and then returned to Venezuela called on Friday for the United States to comply with a ruling that would allow ...

Detroit — Demolition of the former Wayne County Jail is underway as part of a planned redevelopment of the area east of Greektown into a life sciences district. Crews began razing the former jail, ...

A recently released cache of surveillance video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City is raising new questions about the prison cameras at the facility where Jeffrey Epstein died ...

SARSOTA COUNTY, Fla. — In Sarasota County, one commissioner says the jail population has reached an "emergency" level. Numbers given to Spectrum News by the sheriff's office confirm the situation: ...