A Black worker with the Connecticut Department of Transportation has settled a lawsuit with the state that accused four DOT ...

Having an Afro or dreadlocks can mean solitary confinement. Meanwhile, going with mandated hairstyles may be life-threatening ...

Racial disparities in the juvenile justice system are the worst they have ever been, while the number of incarcerated ...

Since Black and white last names are more often similar ... in which he felt dehumanized and stripped of his identity in the prison system. He believes that corrections departments should allow ...

A white Florida woman who fatally shot a Black neighbor through her front door during an ongoing dispute over the neighbor's boisterous children was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison for her ...

A white restaurant manager who forced a disabled black man to work more than 100 hours a week without pay has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Bobby Paul Edwards, 54, beat, burned and hurled ...