"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." That quote, composed in a jail cell, became a lasting rallying cry for vigilance in the pursuit of equality. Two years ago, for the 50th ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Before Lea Daye became the latest Cuyahoga County Jail inmate to die in her cell, she penned a letter about poor conditions in the facility. She stashed it away, fearful that jail ...

Sixty-two years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's pen touches paper in a Birmingham jail cell, I contemplate the walls that still divide us. Walls constructed in concrete to enclose Alabama jails, ...

Accused mass murderer Dylann Roof is “doing fine” in the slammer but could use some reading material, according to a jail note he may have sent to a pen pal. The handwritten letter, which bears the ...

The University of Alabama has made available a digitized version of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The 21-page letter, which was addressed to a group of Alabama ...

A group of 15 inmates at the Harris County jail say in a handwritten letter dated Thursday that they’re panicking and afraid of dying at the jail if officials don’t intervene to prevent the spread of ...

The University of Alabama has made available a digitized version of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." The 21-page letter, which was addressed to a group of Alabama ...

Aaron Hernandez, currently being held in jail after being arrested and charged with murder, is writing letters like crazy. And the people he's writing are selling the letters like crazy. We'd already ...