The high school students were breaking rules — skipping class, talking back to teachers or using their phones when they weren’t allowed. They got detention, meaning they would sit in a classroom for a ...

A Maine high school replaces traditional detention with a hiking program, offering students outdoor walks instead of ...

While I applaud letter writer Earl Pratz’s interest in conditions in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement prisons, he is wrong to suggest that the people detained there have access to adequate ...

The Trump administration is turning the screws on kids who’ve arrived in the United States without adults accompanying them.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal lawsuit that temporarily had interrupted operations at an immigration detention in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” was paused Wednesday by an ...

When Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock was advising immigration attorneys, she would tell their clients in detention to look for the hummingbird logo. The hummingbird floated on the tablets of case managers ...

Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit over conditions at the largest immigration detention center in California, as migrant ...

Section 1. Purpose. The United States must strengthen efforts to protect U.S. nationals from wrongful detention abroad. The United States Government is committed to using every tool available to curb ...