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North Dakota lawmakers have revived a bill that would let children be with their mothers in prison.

James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

North Dakota legislators have reintroduced legislation (Senate Bill 2352) that would allow children to live with their ...

A bill being proposed by the Maine Department of Corrections would allow teens accused of serious crimes to remain in custody with their peers past their 18th birthday. Current Maine law requires ...

Melissa Calusinski was convicted and sentenced to 31 years in prison for the death of a 16-month-old in her care, but her ...

I don’t think anyone really knew when I was sentenced in 1992 what “life without parole” meant. There was a lot of speculation. The courts said I would probably do 30 years before I went up for some ...

He faces prison a further prison sentence if he fails to comply with the order, police have warned. Wadsworth, of no fixed abode, was found guilty of 29 shoplifting offences. Each of the thefts ...

“Where the problem has been for far too long is that when people go to prison, we’re not addressing ... and what we need to do is we need to punish them in a way that reduces reoffending ...

The man convicted in the 2014 fatal stabbing of 6-year-old Prince Joshua Avitto and the near-fatal attack on Mikayla Capers in a Brooklyn elevator has died in prison. Daniel St. Hubert ...

“We have got to do something ... that the changes go beyond just structural. “I would like to see a focus on mental health, not only of people that are residing in the jail but staff too ...