Heavy reliance on pretrial incarceration in Berks County subjects people to poor medical care and unsanitary and unsafe conditions.

CBS 2 Chicago relied on police voices and irrelevant data to question efforts to end cash bail.

Though little is known about how Layleen Polanco died, advocates say her story highlights New York City’s flawed approach to criminal justice.

Right now, only the whitest states—Maine and Vermont—allow prisoners to vote. Washington, D.C., could change that.

A lawsuit filed by Kentrell Hurst’s children is the latest against New Orleans Sheriff Marlin Gusman over jail conditions.

As the Hampton Roads Regional Jail proposes spending $7 million for 113 new guards, advocates renew calls for officials to improve conditions—and an Appeal analysis suggests that the jail could save millions by incarcerating fewer people with mental illness.

The content of New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act represents a new kind of lawmaking—a process that originates with the people who have the most at stake and is shepherded by a diverse coalition.

The criminalization of poverty in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, has led to a staggering increase in incarcerated people, all at a huge cost for defendants and taxpayers alike.

Yesterday the news broke that Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign head who was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on federal charges, will now face criminal charges in state court in Manhattan. The New York Times reports that Manafort will most likely be held at Rikers Island, segregated from the general population. […]

Many jurisdictions across the country use video instead of holding bail hearings in person, a practice that often leads to dire consequences.

Court challenges and a sweeping reform bill are offering hope to men trapped in isolation for decades.

Since 2017, LaToni Daniel has been incarcerated pretrial in a capital murder case. During that time, Daniel became pregnant, and she just delivered a baby boy. But as she brings in new life, she also faces the death penalty.

Aylaliya Birru has served over four years in a California prison for assaulting her husband, who she said was physically abusive. A pardon from Governor Gavin Newsom is her last hope to stay in the U.S.

A new court order allows the family’s lawsuit to proceed, and may lead to holding jail staff accountable.

Despite accounting for less than 12 percent of the state’s adult population, roughly 40 percent of all bail bonds were issued in cases involving a Black defendant.

The DeKalb County Jail, now at the center of protests, has a long history of problems and a legacy of housing people for unpaid fines.

Prisoners can shave time off their sentences by participating in shock incarceration programs. More than a dozen former shock prisoners say that comes at a steep cost.

At least two people have killed themselves in jail after waiting for more than a week to be appointed a lawyer.

A civil rights lawsuit claims officers pepper sprayed him, stripped him naked, and then surrounded him and beat him to death.

A number of people spent multiple days at the Atlanta City Detention Center for low-level offenses, including for driving while using a cell phone and for walking in the roadway.

A newly amended class-action lawsuit accuses the Cuyahoga County jail of neglect and mistreatment.

The bail bonds industry was caught overcharging 50,000 families $6 million over 14 years, according to SPLC.

A new lawsuit, filed against the Virginia Department of Corrections, says prisoners are kept in isolation for frivolous reasons and prevented from rejoining the general population.

‘Worst policy imaginable’ punishes, rather than treats, patients who earn less than a dollar an hour, advocates say.

Florida is poised to pass a law that imposes a ‘poll tax’ on thousands of formerly incarcerated people.

Rashad McNulty entered a guilty plea in a series of federal gang indictments in New York that have been criticized as racist and overly punitive. But before McNulty was even sentenced, he died in jail. Now, his family is seeking justice.

Sierra Castle alleges she faced discrimination and harassment after being placed in a men’s holding cell in the Cobb County, Georgia, jail.

A wave of hunger strikes hit Alabama prisons as DOJ released a report calling the facilities “unconstitutional.”

Antonio May, a 32 year-old father of three, died in the Fulton County Jail in September after deputies pepper-sprayed and shot him with a Taser.

Two sheriffs in Missouri have cut off all in-person visitation in favor of costly video technology.

Women with mental illness are left in isolation and filth, and often placed in solitary confinement, according to a suit against the Fulton County sheriff.

Adrianna Thurman said she was informed by jail staff after her release that she had ‘slipped through the cracks.’

At Virginia’s Hampton Roads Regional Jail, reform has been slow even after high-profile tragedies including the death of mentally disabled man incarcerated who allegedly stole $5 worth of snacks.

Activists say the sheriff is trying to add jail beds under the guise of mental health treatment.

The legislation is part of a wave of bills across the country meant to criminalize mistakes in the name of voter fraud.

Cook County has a new contract for juvenile ankle monitors that critics say are an invasion of privacy.

Richard Cannon was making gains after being released from prison. Then one arrest changed the course of his life.

Low-income women are fueling bail industry profits—and getting harmed in the process.

Patrick Murphy didn’t even learn about the murder until later that day. A controversial law allows him to be executed anyway.

Attorneys and advocates call for change in Madison County after the deaths of three Black people at its jail and because of what they allege is a system of roadblocks targeting Black residents.