Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office authorities unveiled Tuesday a new program that allows instant language translation in ...

He’s deaf! He cannot hear!’ people can be heard shouting on a video of Anthony Paredes being chased and apprehended.

Deportation practices in the USA continue to undermine the communication and disability rights of asylum seekers with disabilities, especially deaf individuals, causing serious health consequences and ...

Manuel Portillo, the former warden at the Southern Desert Correctional Center near Indian Springs, is facing charges after an ...

The Trump regime is erasing the scant protections in place for transgender people in immigration prison, including safeguards against rape, a review of new contract modifications between Immigration ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Washington County Sheriff's Office said on Sunday that there was a "possible riot" at the Washington State Prison. Sheriff Joel Cochran said just before 5 p.m. that two ...

Sara Montague McFarland sits for a portrait holding a framed photograph of her late husband, Robert McFarland, in April 2024 in Fairfax. Robert McFarland was killed while working as a correctional ...

A Brick man was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder-for-hire of his father. The man, Mark J. Austin, hired his former cellmate to beat his father to death with a baseball bat.

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ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a prison overhaul bill Friday, significantly increasing the use of cameras in correctional facilities and making other changes in the wake of the beating death of an ...

Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed legislation that enacts 10 changes to New York’s state-run prisons and local jails. The bill, A8871/S8415, comes after the murders of Robert Brooks and Messiah ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage was sentenced Friday to 25 years to ...