In the 1990s, as New York City’s crime rate climbed, the NYPD turned to statistics—creating CompStat—to predict patterns and better fight crime. In 2015, as violence has surged in New York City’s ...

The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of an Arkansas prison inmate who had contended that prison officials refused to restore his inmate classification and he was denied entrance into a ...

Federal inmates who have been denied relocation to a lower security facility have the right to challenge the denial via a habeas corpus application, a legal remedy available to individuals who believe ...

Orleans Parish jail staff are now asking arrestees booked into the facility questions to determine whether they are vulnerable to sexual assault, Sheriff's Office leaders said Thursday. The change to ...

Western Australia Attorney-General Jim McGinty has told an inquiry that he does not recall being told a new prisoner classification system had not been properly assessed when he authorised it. The ...