Federal workers endure financial strain and fear layoffs as the government shutdown drags on

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed or working without pay face mounting financial strain. Now, they are ...
Courthouse News Service

Relief for federal prisoners has justices asking if they’re always supreme

A complex jurisdictional fight was further complicated as the high court considered if Congress could prevent the justices ...

Case of 3 prison officers charged with murder now goes to the jury

Closing arguments are underway at the trial of three former correction officers charged with murdering an inmate at a state ...

Jury deliberates in trial of 3 New York corrections officers charged in inmate's fatal beating

A jury has begun deliberations in the upstate New York murder trial of three former corrections officers accused in the fatal ...
The Nevada Independent

Nevada OKs $4.6M settlement with family who says beatings by staff killed prisoner

Nevada OKs $4.6M settlement with family who says beatings by staff killed prisoner. Read more from The Nevada Independent.
Tri States Public Radio

A year after statewide picket, Galesburg prison still plagued by drugs, violence, understaffing

Blaze Burford, president of AFSCME Local 1274, said the same issues are plaguing the prison as last year. They don’t have ...