Michael Horrell, a staff attorney at Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts — an organization focused on protecting civil rights of people in prisons — said the pandemic has worsened the quality of health care in the state’s correctional facilities, which has “never been great.”

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead Saturday at a Texas resort, The New York Times reported. It is a huge loss for the conservative faction of the court, already crippled...

On Sept. 8, 1992, Texas resident Scott Panetti woke up around dawn, shaved his head and drove to his wife’s parents’ house. In front of his wife and 3-year-old daughter, he shot and killed his in-laws....