As governments continue to fail to provide assistance and treatment to those in need, newer restraint techniques have begun to take shape across the nation.

A survey of US crime victims indicates they favor funding education, jobs, health care, and other services over incarceration by wide margins.

Chase’s exclusive contract was a “deceptive, fraudulent and illegal scheme” to exploit “one of the most vulnerable groups imaginable.”

President Barack Obama has pardoned fewer federal prisoners than the past four presidents, including President Ronald Reagan.

A new report by Disability Rights New York finds a rehabilitation program for prisoners in solitary confinement, who have disabilities, is marred by abuse.

In the midst of the Great Recession, a nurse, a car dealership worker and an insurance fraud specialist commit a revolutionary act: they read their mortgage documents.

Veteran Middle East expert Charles Glass combines reportage, analysis, and history to provide an overview of the Syrian conflict.

In jails that are overcrowded, underfunded, and face mounting medical costs, fiscal expediency can trump basic principles of medical care.