Idaho’s prison system and the state agency that certifies law enforcement will now conceal information about officers’ employment histories, making it more difficult to scrutinize job candidates and ...

House Bill 422 would change rules for insanity defense, life sentences, mandatory early release. Democrats point out that cost is unknown.

The Hancock County Coroner said EMS crews arrived on the scene to try and treat Johnson's injuries, but he died before they arrived ...

The third deadline in as many weeks came Tuesday in the Washington Legislature. It meant the end of the road for numerous bills, including priorities on issues like homelessness, child welfare, gun ...

The federal immigration dragnet that has defined life in parts of Minneapolis for weeks is finally easing, but it is not disappearing. Instead, the operation is being reshaped so that a smaller ...

An InvestigateWest probe showed that corrections officers resigned after alleged bad behavior. Now, those decisions will be ...

Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King and became a leader of the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King was assassinated in 1968 ...

BREAKING NEWS AT FOUR A PRISON CORRECTIONS OFFICER IS DEAD. ANOTHER IS IN A HOSPITAL AFTER AN INMATE ATTACKED THEM. IT HAPPENED AT RIVER NORTH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN INDEPENDENCE. NOW INDEPENDENCE ...

The Washington Senate has approved legislation that would give the Department of Corrections more flexibility in distributing the state’s stockpile of abortion medication.

Nearly two dozen Buddhist monks who with their dog Aloka participated in a cross-country Walk for Peace return to the Huong ...

While working at the DOC-managed D.C. Jail, Jones “endured pervasive acts of harassment based on his sexual orientation” that ...