Editor’s note: Reggie B. Walton is a senior judge on the US District Court for the District of Columbia. He was chair of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, tasked with identifying ways ...

A former detention officer is facing multiple charges after investigators say he engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a female inmate inside the county jail. According to the Carroll County ...

Ten years ago this week, Congress unanimously approved the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) to end sexual violence behind bars. The law arrived too late for Rodney Hulin, whose mother, Linda ...

MARION – There are many things that define Najmuddeen Salaam. He’s tall. He’s black. He’s a dad. He’s a college graduate. He practices Islam. He wears glasses. He spent 18 years in prison. That last ...

The Harris County Sheriff's Office has run afoul of a federal law aimed at reducing sexual assaults in jails, leaving 17-year-old inmates with virtually no place to go while awaiting trial in adult ...