In 1971, professor Philip Zimbardo put together one of the most intriguing and famous psychology experiments ever: the Stanford Prison Experiment, designed to study the effects of incarceration on ...

About 50% of the inmates of U. S. insane asylums are there on account of a deteriorated mental-emotional condition variously called dementia praecox, schizophrenia or split personality.

Watch again as people criminally charged with participating in the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol, left prison after president Donald Trump pardoned them in a show of solidarity with ...

President Donald Trump is preparing to send around 10,000 troops to the southern border, where they will support Border Patrol agents under new orders to shut off access to asylum, according to a ...

Sarah Burris is a long-time veteran of political campaigns, having worked as a fundraiser and media director across the United States. She transitioned into reporting while working for Rock the ...

Two asylum seekers who were left free to shoplift designer items to order claimed they needed money for food and clothes, a court heard. Frans Epentrius, 29, and Tobias Iileka, 33, who are waiting ...

And so he banned further Massachusetts showings of Titticut Follies, an 87-minute documentary filmed at the state’s Bridgewater State Mental Hospital for the criminally insane. Kalus also ...

A white supremacist who stabbed an asylum seeker at a hotel in what a judge said was "undoubtedly a terrorist attack" has been jailed for life. Callum Parslow, 32, stabbed Nahom Hagos in the chest ...

Two Durham Regional Police officers have been criminally charged after a police chase the wrong way down a stretch of Hwy. 401 ended in a head-on crash that killed four – including an infant and ...

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A verdict in the case of a Langford man accused of killing his mother in 2021 will not come until after defence lawyers have a chance to argue that he is not criminally responsible on account of a ...