They received the maximum one-year sentence for gross misdemeanor child neglect in connection with the March 2015 death of their 7-year-old adopted son.

Over 1,000 women ended up in a Dutch state workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work. Who were the women ...

500 child skeletons in workhouse mass grave tell of Great Hunger struggles Skeletons of over 500 children who died during the Great Hunger were found buried in a mass grave within what was once ...

ST. LOUIS — Thousands of people detained at a former city jail could get compensation soon. On Tuesday, the legal advocacy organization, ArchCity Defenders filed a motion in federal court for a ...

Boston had constructed a workhouse during the late 1730s, which was first occupied in July 1739. It is interesting how York's contemplated project occurred so close in time.

Here's a closer look at all of the new laws that will take effect in Tennessee on Tuesday, July 1.EXPOSING CHILDREN TO DRUGSAnyone who exposes a child to fentanyl will commit a Class E felony, ...

ST. LOUIS — Mayor Tishaura O. Jones on Wednesday signaled plans to turn the site of the former medium-security jail on Hall Street, known as the workhouse, into affordable housing or shelter for ...

ANOKA COUNTY, Minn. — An Anoka County Workhouse employee was charged after being accused of having an ongoing sexual relationship with an inmate. Court documents said 30-year-old Kendra ...

But a “refuge” it was not, and workhouses were overrun with abuse, neglect, poor working conditions, malnutrition and forced child labor, according to Historic UK.

Women and girls were sent to mother and baby institutions after becoming pregnant in workhouses in Northern Ireland, MLAs ...

In an area of the workhouse thought to have been the women’s wards, researchers unearthed fireplaces and walls covered in blue painted plaster, indicating that residents likely lived in brighter ...

The City of St. Louis wants to hear from the people most affected by the Workhouse as elected leaders try to figure out what to do with the now-shuttered jail and the land it sits on. While it was ...