Personal narratives can help the public understand the benefits of bail reform, but telling these success stories presents its own share of challenges.
Thousands of elderly people are released from U.S. prisons each year, and advocates say states urgently need to scale up their capacity to provide them with compassionate care.
When I was 19, I worked in an emotional support classroom in a North Philadelphia elementary school. I saw children as young as five get treated like prisoners.
The law granted embryos and fetuses the same rights as a person. Civil rights groups sought an injunction out of concern the law could criminalize people who provide or obtain abortions.
What do you do with people who are repeatedly failed by social services and the legal system?
The real aim of these operations might be to boost support for cops.
As Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s profile rises, the glossy coverage has largely ignored her crusade to incarcerate teachers accused of cheating on tests.
The horrific experiences of women at a Virginia prison fit a broader pattern of neglect across the country.
I wanted to have a better diet in prison. But when you’ve been stripped of your freedom, it can be impossible to make the “right” decisions.
The probe will assess whether the SVD engages in a “pattern or practice of gender-biased policing,” according to the DOJ.
Resources from organizations that have spent decades helping people access abortions and defending people who are criminalized for their pregnancy outcomes.
Most abortion bans criminalize providers by making it a felony to perform an abortion. But experts say people who obtain abortions can and will be criminalized for their pregnancy outcomes — they already have been even while Roe was still in place.
Police and prosecutors will now be tasked with enforcing state anti-abortion laws.
Model state legislation proposed by a leading anti-choice group would impose felony charges for a broad new set of activities related to abortion.
If the Democratic Party wants to run away from those candidates, it will only be running towards its own demise.
New “domestic terror” laws will do little to stop gun violence in America, but may pacify suburban white voters.
More than two years into the pandemic, the Broome County Sheriff’s Office is still prohibiting all jail visits. The policy helped them take in more than a half-million dollars in 2021.
For the wealthy backers of the Boudin recall, “progressive” prosecutors are the perfect scapegoat for what they see as threats to a system that treats them just fine.
Expert says trauma from childbirth, not shaking, led to the death of Danyel Smith’s two-month-old child.
Advocates say the policy, aimed at eliminating contraband, will harm prisoners and their loved ones by making it much harder to send fresh food and other essentials into prisons.
Prosecutors across the country could soon be tasked with enforcing abortion laws that require people to reproduce against their will.
Maricopa County elects a new top prosecutor this year. In the meantime, state law could let the county’s conservative county attorney prosecute abortions if Roe falls.
As politicians look to build public support for homeless encampment sweeps, they’re using tactics popularized in LA—the site of one of the nation’s most intense battles over the unhoused.
New laws imposing criminal penalties for trans healthcare follow a long legislative history of explicitly targeting queer people in the United States.
The racketeering charges against Young Thug, Gunna, and YSL are over-broad, over-stated and unnecessarily harsh.
Accused of faking his symptoms, Joshua Lee Smith was dragged from his hospital bed, called a “junkie,” and thrown in jail, his lawsuit says. Then, he woke up paralyzed.
Patrice Andrews once promised she’d never work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But in 2018, she directly ordered the arrest of immigration activists during an ICE deportation.
The U.S. must close its congregate care facilities and fully fund community-based alternatives for kids with mental-health issues.
In the raucous debate over bail reform, simple facts have fallen out of sight.
A Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion could force thousands of incarcerated people to carry pregnancies to term.
In January, a New Jersey judge said Shaken Baby Syndrome is “akin to junk science.”
An incarcerated writer reflects on what her “going home” story will look like when home no longer exists.
Her jeans were so tight, she couldn’t have been raped, the judges said.
One incarcerated author used skills from an HIV/AIDS group to push imprisoned people and prison guards to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
We’re celebrating 4/20 by tackling some popular myths about marijuana and the criminal legal system.
Cynthia Alvarado was raped in jail before she was sentenced to life in prison for a murder she did not commit. Now that her sentence has been overturned, Alvarado is fighting for women like her.
Reporters entertained the notion that a toddler deserved prison time with headlines like ‘No Charges for 5-Year-Old in Pembroke Pines School Attack’
Legionella bacteria was found in five Illinois prisons in March.
Opponents of bail reform blame pretrial release for increased crime, despite a lack of evidence. Lost in the debate—the proven harms of jail.
Serving out a sentence in a Washington state prison, I was certain I’d never own a home. When my wife and I started the process, we found out just how difficult it would be.