Trump didn’t start it, but we can end it.

The Boyd County Detention Center has been consumed in chaos, even as the DOJ investigates it. Now, the community is pinning hopes for reform on a new jailer.

Two women died at the Duchesne County Jail in the span of about one week in 2016. Now their families are suing in federal court.

But more than 1,100 others are still serving sentences that voters decided were too harsh.

Everyone agrees the jail at 850 Bryant should close, but it’s not yet clear what would happen to those locked inside.

The landmark decision could help other transgender people in jails and prisons who have been denied access to hormone treatment, a violation of their constitutional rights.

New York City has reduced its jail population, but those who remain are staying longer.

Muslim prisoners, meanwhile, say they were starved during Ramadan and deprived of religious texts.

Lawsuits that challenge mental healthcare and medical care for incarcerated people advance in Illinois.

Meanwhile, the abysmal medical care that helped spark the riot persists.

A new Bronx Freedom Fund report documents these extended pretrial lockups, which threaten people’s jobs and destabilize families.

Recent Supreme Court rulings have led to a review of life-without-parole sentences for crimes committed at age 17 and younger, but attorneys for Avis Lee say there’s no reason to stop there.

A lawsuit accuses Illinois of cutting off LGBTQ prisoners’ lifeline to supporters.

From sheriffs to bail to marijuana, and more—here’s what you need to know.

No Cook County judge has lost a retention election in 28 years.

In Santa Clara County, incarcerated people, and a former undersheriff challenging six-term sheriff Laurie Smith, have turned conditions of confinement into a potent electoral issue.

New development in a high-profile case comes as advocates question the state’s prison conditions and sentencing practices.

Trial begins in class action suit alleging medical neglect by Louisiana State Penitentiary.

A Texas jail suicide involving a woman who couldn’t make bail in a shoplifting case highlights of the plight of pretrial detainees with mental illness.

Few of the prisons trying to stem flow of contraband Suboxone offer substantial opioid treatment programs.

What it’s like to take part in New York City’s Mass Bailout.

The governor is making sheriffs sign an oath promising they won’t misuse funds meant to feed jail prisoners. But some sheriffs are already pushing back.

Judges are still setting bail at unaffordable levels, and more people are being held without bond.

District attorneys’ comments belie the true purpose of bail in New York and ignore the safety risks of jail itself.

Dozens of former detainees at the Gwinnett County jail in Georgia claim they were subjected to brutality at the hands of its Rapid Response Team.

‘Cold case’ playing cards were just introduced into Delaware prisons in hopes of producing tips on unsolved homicides—but critics warn that informants cultivated behind bars can be dangerously unreliable.

Louisiana is keeping people behind bars long after their sentences have expired, attorneys say.

As media attention wanes, “this is the most dangerous period with any prisoner action,” one organizer said.

The company is being paid $4 million a year to open and scan prisoners’ mail into a searchable database.

Prisons carry enormous, perhaps impossible to measure social costs—but when assessing the system fiscally, reformers should focus on staffing salaries instead of the number of incarcerated people.

A man sentenced to die in prison is inciting debate over ‘felony murder’ rules in Colorado.

How the politics of storm preparation reveal whose lives matter, and who gets left behind.

As Thursday’s election approaches, confusion reigns.

Immigrants are being deported while their cases are still pending, immigration attorneys say.

Despite a 2015 Supreme Court ruling limiting the mandatory minimum law, few people are seeing relief.

Attorney General Jeff Landry has taken a number of extreme positions on policing and sentencing in response to reform.

Lawsuits allege that a private Tennessee prison neglected diabetic prisoners, contributing to at least one death.

An imprisoned organizer with Jailhouse Lawyers Speak said prison officials are trying to identify those leading the strike.

Now in its second week, a strike staged by prisoners over poor conditions, low wages, and other issues is resulting in consequences, including harsh conduct reports and placements in solitary confinement.

Lewis Conway Jr., a formerly incarcerated activist running for Austin City Council, sits down with The Appeal.