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.

Lawmakers are redefining certain crimes in order to carve out broad exceptions to who can regain the right to vote.

In the deep blue home of Beto O’Rourke, attorneys and advocates are questioning the county’s multi-million-dollar contract to detain migrants and refugees.

As they await statewide action to eliminate cash bail, city councilmembers are looking for ways to reduce the financial burden on families of incarcerated people.

The Bureau of Prisons’ South Central regional director utilized incarcerated people from a Texas prison to work on a landscaping project at his church.

A judge excluded a confession that exonerated defendants in one trial related to a Delaware prison uprising, but a pair of defendants were nonetheless acquitted, promising further problems for prosecutors.

There are more than 2,700 people on electronic monitoring in Cook County, Illinois, alone.

Family members are frantic after 330 prisoners are transferred to Pennsylvania.

The crisis at Brooklyn’s federal jail reveals how jails and prisons ‘are not prepared for a disaster.’

A lawsuit challenging cash bail in St. Louis could help close a notorious jail.

William J. Richards was cleared in the death of his wife. But he says he was the victim of medical neglect while he was behind bars, which led to a cancer diagnosis becoming terminal. Now he’s suing.