A June 24 substation fire caused an all-day power outage that cut off the system that cools the Cuyahoga County jail in ...

Federal court-appointed monitors visited Hinds County’s Raymond Detention Center in May for the first time in nearly three ...

The report, by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, comes after an investigative series by The Marshall Project and NPR exposed similar abuses.

In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ historic speech, 20 currently and formerly incarcerated Americans explain what ...

The state Supreme Court wants to know how local courts provide lawyers, if any, to poor people after their arrest.

Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, ...

The concept takes into account nonphysical tactics abusers use to trap their partners. But some worry the new laws will hurt ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

In a term marked by rulings limiting immigrants’ rights, the court sided with several other people harmed by the criminal justice system.

Jails in St. Louis, Cleveland and Jackson, Mississippi, don’t provide direct access to sunlight and fresh air – even when their own policies require it.

Judge Stops Federal Prisons From Enforcing Trump’s Trans Care Ban, For Now The district judge ordered the prison system to continue providing hormone therapy to transgender people as needed, while a ...