A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that each prisoner in a multi-prisoner suit proceeding in forma pauperis must pay the full amount of a filing fee. A divided U.S. Court of ...

In August 2011, Mark Nunez typed out a lawsuit against the city, a year after a team of jail officers on Rikers Island beat him with a radio, dragged him down a hallway and stripped him naked. In an ...

While most of us try to avoid prison, the Reverend Vera Rhyne is always trying to get inside one. Women’s, men’s, maximum security, minimum security – Rhyne’s been in plenty, including California’s ...

Nearly three years into Bill Clinton's first term as president, US senators took to the floor to tackle an urgent concern. Prisoners across the country were filing too many lawsuits. "The vast ...

PHOENIX — The state is asking federal judge to throw out a lawsuit filed on behalf of more than 34,000 inmates, saying there’s no evidence each and every prisoner is at risk. Attorney Daniel Struck, ...

An Erie County Prison inmate files a federal lawsuit against the county, prison staff over alleged assaults in 2024 A former prison lieutenant was charged in one of the incidents outlined in the suit ...

The Missouri prisoner who was ridiculed for wanting a salad bar, meanwhile, had filed suit with dozens of other prisoners alleging major deficiencies at their facility, including insufficient food, ...