In the 1990s, as New York City’s crime rate climbed, the NYPD turned to statistics—creating CompStat—to predict patterns and better fight crime. In 2015, as violence has surged in New York City’s ...

Jeff Hall is an inmate at California State Prison, Solano, in Vacaville. He was sentenced to life without parole for a murder he committed in Santa Clara when he was 18. He entered the prison system ...

The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of an Arkansas prison inmate who had contended that prison officials refused to restore his inmate classification and he was denied entrance into a ...

Federal inmates who have been denied relocation to a lower security facility have the right to challenge the denial via a habeas corpus application, a legal remedy available to individuals who believe ...

Orleans Parish jail staff are now asking arrestees booked into the facility questions to determine whether they are vulnerable to sexual assault, Sheriff's Office leaders said Thursday. The change to ...