With heat waves sweeping across the country, incarcerated people in states with traditionally milder climates are facing brutal conditions that have long plagued the South and Southwest. A survey by The Appeal reveals that many of the hottest states house prisoners in units without air-conditioning.
State policies nearly everywhere banish those with a sexual offense in their past. Vermont does the opposite by building communities around them—with dramatically positive results.
On Election Day, voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont will decide whether to close loopholes in their state constitutions allowing the forced labor of incarcerated people.
Political concerns are slowing efforts to depopulate prisons in the state, advocates say.
A class-action lawsuit filed Saturday alleges that staff at a New Hampshire youth detention center subjected children to physical, sexual, and emotional abuse
Recent legal victories have spurred counties and states to provide medication-assisted treatment to prisoners struggling with substance use.
Right now, only the whitest states—Maine and Vermont—allow prisoners to vote. Washington, D.C., could change that.
More states are giving undocumented immigrants driver’s licenses, but many DMVs are sharing their information with ICE.