U.S. Justice Department threatens to sue Georgia if it doesn’t curb rampant violations of prison inmates' constitutional ...

At one facility, the body of an inmate, possibly strangled in his cell, was so decomposed that the coroner concluded he had ...

Our findings reveal that the leadership of the Georgia Department of Corrections has lost control of its facilities,” said ...

Prisons in Georgia are plagued by assaults, murder and sexual violence and officials in the southern US state are ...

Leading Republican Senator John Cornyn vowed to block Harris from nominating a left wing "radical" to the Supreme Court.

The federal review is being conducted by the Civil Rights Division’s Cold Case Unit, under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil ...

Project 2025 would severely restrict abortion pills, abolish federal agencies, block climate change research, end student ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a review and evaluation of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa ...

Local authorities and historians have investigated the deadly racial violence in Tulsa's past, but this is this is a first ...

Georgia's corrections department says a new federal report on state prison ... saying the prison system “operates in a manner exceeding the requirements of the United States Constitution” and decrying ...

Georgia prisons feature in “horrific and unsafe conditions” that violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual DOJ alleged Tuesday.

The federal investigation into Georgia prison conditions uncovered "among the most severe violations" of inmates' civil ...