Adrian is a prisoner in an isolation cell in a New York State prison, due to be released in September of 2015. He spends 23 hours per day locked in his cell. The picture above, clipped from a newspaper and festooned with motivational reminders, hangs on his cell wall "to remind him of his dream to work in an office one day."

According to a report from the Associated Press, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is calling for the release of three members of Pussy Riot, saying that any further imprisonment would be "unproductive."

Yesterday, Michael Wayne Hash, who spent 12 years in a Virginia prison for murder, had all of the charges against him dismissed. A judge found him to be innocent. He's a free man. Not every innocent prisoner is so lucky.

Portland resident "Simon Jackson" had his bike stolen by a Stumptown thief, only to find it on Craigslist in Seattle. So he did what any bike theft victim would do if he had some friends, some guts, and a lucky hat: He organized a sting operation.

Last September, outside of an Austin, Texas Sears store, Willie James Sauls snatched a purse off the arm of an 84 year-old woman and fled. That's fucked up. This week, a state district judge sentenced Sauls to 45 years in prison for his crime. That is far more fucked up.

Ever since the collapse of the global economy due to massive, reckless, multi-trillion-dollar "me-first" gambling on an institutional scale, Americans have been clamoring for prosecution of the powerful people whose greed caused this whole mess. And finally, we're getting it: law enforcement has, at long last, arrested the guys who take old cardboard boxes from out back of Wal-Mart.

William Balfour, the man who murdered Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother, and 7-year-old nephew Julian, was given three life sentences for his crimes. He was found guilty back in May.

Score one for common sense: 17-year-old Savannah Dietrich of Louisville won't be charged with contempt of court after defense attorneys for the two teens who sexually assaulted her withdrew their motion this afternoon.

Michigan Humane Society agents, accompanied by Detroit Police officers, descended on the home of Detroit rapper Young Calicoe today to remove animals found on the premises that may have been victims of a dog and cock fighting operation.

Last month, we learned that that great state of Texas would rather let prisoners die of heat stroke than install air conditioning in its state prisons, because, hey, who cares, honestly? One reader pointed us to a related Texas prison story that is even worse: a facility with no water.

In the United States of America, we do not have debtors' prison. Right? Oh, so wrong. The financial and legal penalties for being poor in America are only getting worse.

Last month, the 6,200 residents of Bethel, Alaska, got their collective hopes up after news spread that a Taco Bell restaurant was opening in town.

The four Athena Middle School students from who verbally abused elderly bus monitor Karen Klein have been suspended from school and its bus transportation system for one full year, Greece Central School District Superintendent Barbara Deane-Williams announced today.

The state of Texas is, as one would expect of Satan's favored playground, hot. Texas is also "tough on crime," meaning it enjoys locking people in jails but cares little what happens to them afterwards. So while Americans love air conditioning for themselves, Texans don't see the point of giving it to prisoners. What next—water?

Karen Klein, the 68-year-old bus monitor who was cruelly harassed by four middle school students from Greece, New York, appeared on several talk shows this morning to discuss the incident which occurred this past Monday.

One of the most blatant injustices in our nation's drug laws (which are themselves an injustice) has always been the disparity in sentencing between those who were caught selling crack and those who were caught selling powder cocaine. Crack sentences have always been much, much harsher. (Racism, by scaremongering "tough on crime" politicians? Yes, it's racism by scaremongering "tough on crime" politicians.) A 2010 law finally brought crack sentences down to earth, very relatively speaking. And now: a bit of good news, for crack stragglers.

Karen Klein, the elderly school bus monitor who was verbally assaulted by a number of students from Athena Middle School in Greece, New York, spoke with several local news outlets today after a video of the shocking incident went viral.

A U.S. Senate subcommittee is holding hearings on the practice of solitary confinement in our nation's prisons. Here's what Anthony Graves, who spent 18 years in prison for murder before being exonerated, had to say about the practice:

Nine-year-old Martha Payne of Argyll, Scotland, became an overnight sensation after her school lunch review blog NeverSeconds managed to convince her school to start serving students healthier meals.

A Texas father is being commended for killing a man he allegedly caught sexually assaulting his four-year-old daughter behind his horse barn outside Shiner.