Legal

Both men have pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from a March incident that left a corrections officer and a nurse dead

A trial over whether immigration detainees must get minimum wage — instead of $1 a day — has ended with a hung jury

Nearly 140 employees work at the minimum-security prison. About 1,000 inmates will be moved to other facilities

Lawyers say too many mentally ill patients spend months in jail, where they suffer while awaiting medical attention

Under the state's revised capital punishment law, inmates must have the choice between the electric chair and a firing squad

Jury selection is underway in a trial to determine whether GEO Group must pay minimum wage to detainees at its Wash. state immigration detention center

Employment lawyer Scott Moore Esq., addresses frequently asked questions

A new directive "essentially takes the imposition of mandatory minimum terms ‘off the table’ for all current and future non-violent drug defendants"

"This needs to be addressed and no one else is addressing it. These detainees are crying for your help," an organizer said

Though other federal courts had already determined a prison visitor must be given the option to leave rather than submit to a strip search, the 9th Circuit had not spoken sufficiently to clearly establish that right in its jurisdiction