Mentally ill prisoners
This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Raymond Riles. Riles, the longest serving death row inmate in the U.S. was resentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 after prosecutors in Texas concluded the 71-year-old man is ineligible for execution and incompetent for retrial due to his long history of mental illness. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP, File)
Longest serving death row inmate in US resentenced to life

By Juan A. Lozano Jun. 09, 2021 04:53 PM EDT

A Pakistani walks past the Supreme Court building in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. In a landmark ruling, Pakistan's top court on Wednesday commuted the death sentences of two mentally ill prisoners who have spent decades on death row, the first such ruling in this conservative Muslim-majority nation. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
Pakistan commutes death sentence for 2 mentally ill convicts

By Munir Ahmed Feb. 10, 2021 03:51 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press Nov. 27, 2020 04:06 PM EST
Recent editorials of regional and national interest from New England’s newspapers: CONNECTICUT: Thanksgiving amid...

Prisoner's death may change how masks are issued to inmates

By Pat Eaton-Robb Aug. 20, 2020 03:09 PM EDT
WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's Department of Correction is planning changes to its policy of handing out cloth masks to all inmates during the...

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2005 file photo, Arlan and Linda Kaufman walk to the federal courthouse in Wichita, Kan., for their trial on several federal charges including servitude. A federal judge has refused to free Arlan Kaufman who once enslaved mentally ill patients in Kansas and forced them to work naked and engage in sexual acts, while billing the government and their families for the therapy. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten cited the "particularly heinous nature" of the abusive treatment of mentally ill patients in a ruling Tuesday, July 21, 2020, to deny the request of Kaufman for compassionate release from his 30-year prison sentence amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Dave Williams/The Wichita Eagle via AP)
Kansan who abused mentally ill patients denied early release

By Roxana Hegeman Jul. 23, 2020 01:28 PM EDT

FILE - In this July 8, 2006 file photo, women prisoners celebrate the news of their release on bail, at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Kanizan Bibi, charged with murdering her employer's wife and five children, remains a prisoner on death row for the last 29 years. She’s one of more than 600 mentally ill prisoners in Pakistan’s overcrowded prisons. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed,file)
29 years on death row, Pakistan woman suffers mental illness

By Kathy Gannon Apr. 10, 2020 08:35 AM EDT