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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...