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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

How the Supreme Court Ruled Differently in Immigration and Criminal Justice Cases In a term marked by rulings limiting immigrants’ rights, the court sided with several other people harmed by the ...

Wilkes County, North Carolina, has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic, but local officials have been open to approaches for making the crisis less deadly. They recently embraced a new strategy: a ...