From policing to parole, this election could be pivotal for reform.

Instead of changing its conditions and practices, The Bureau of Prisons is simply moving a problem-plagued federal prison unit in Pennsylvania to Illinois.

Prisoners are striking to end death by incarceration, prison slavery and poor living conditions.

Ronald Brooks was helping plan a prison strike when he was abruptly transferred to a new prison hours away.

With journalist Kira Lerner.

A new report details the abysmal conditions, lack of medical care, and staff shortages that led to the unusually high death rate in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

After being released from prison, her only chance is a pardon from the governor.

Under ‘Operation Streamline,’ Border Patrol has become responsible for the housing and transporting of immigrants.

The criminal court was funneling millions of dollars a year from poor communities.

Several candidates are vying to become Milwaukee Sheriff in the wake of Sheriff David Clarke’s resignation last fall. But will they truly spurn his legacy of jail deaths and cooperation with ICE?

Taking electronic monitoring to the next level.

Bolus is one of thousands of New Yorkers sentenced to life in prison who are waiting for the governor to keep his clemency promise.

And padding city and state coffers with millions of dollars.

News of the victory is spreading rapidly to other cities.

New types of registries are being created around the country, despite research showing they don’t work.

In jurisdictions across the country, people incarcerated before they’ve ever been convicted of a crime are charged a daily fee just for sitting in jail—and several courts have ruled that the practice is legal.

“Jail is not a country club,” the Bristol County sheriff said. “That’s why once you’ve done time in the Bristol County House of Corrections, you won’t want to come back.”

Trump’s pick to replace Justice Kennedy would most likely undermine the rights of criminal defendants and stall progress on solitary confinement, prisoners’ rights, and the death penalty.

New bail funds aren’t just getting immigrants out of detention—they’re helping them stay in the country permanently.

But after a spree of commutations, the governor recently put down his clemency pen amid tough-on-crime fear mongering.

San Francisco just became the first city in the nation to stop charging court fines and fees, but the rest of the state has a long way to go.

Families are torn apart by the criminal justice system every day.

Advocates decry court’s shift to using teleconferencing for hearings.

‘We have a reaction as mothers to what’s been going on.’

With privatization of the state’s prisons in full swing, this year is on track to be its deadliest on record.

As a consequence, authorities are keeping them in cells for 22 to 23 hours a day, according to Oregon’s federal public defender.

A New York City man has been shuffled between Rikers Island and mental hospitals for 32 years.

New York’s Democratic governor has granted only a trickle of commutations, fewer than many of his Democratic and Republican predecessors.

Activists launch a new campaign to close an infamous St. Louis jail.

Kim Kardashian’s successful campaign to free a 63-year-old grandmother serving a life sentence in a drug case is a reminder that we need to go big on clemency. A 52-year-old grandfather named Euka Wadlington, also doing life in a drug case, would be a great place to start.

Debate coach Katrina Burlet says she was banned from state’s prisons after prisoners in her program argued for parole.

The judge who sentenced Brock Turner brought much-needed compassion to the bench, says public defender Sajid Khan.

People incarcerated at Angola want opportunities for education instead of hard labor in the fields.

Death penalty mitigation offers juries a chance to see defendants in a different light.

A new paper argues that President Johnson’s 1967 Commission on Law Enforcement’s report on the subject was “decades ahead of its time.”

Activists say a once-radical campaign has been co-opted.

Houston has come up with a new way to make life harder for people leaving prison on parole: by forcing the programs that provide them with housing, often paired with job placement and other services, to move outside the city limits. At the end of March, the city council approved an ordinance that imposes new regulations and […]

On Wednesday, May 16, 16-year-old Rosalyn “Bird” Holmes was able to walk out of prison and hug her mother. Though the teenager has yet to be indicted, let alone convicted, of any crime, she nonetheless spent the past 40 days in the Tennessee State Penitentiary, an adult women’s prison in Henning, Tennessee. Had it not […]

Todd Entrekin, the sheriff of the small Alabama county of Etowah, recently found himself in the national spotlight when an Alabama newspaper discovered that over the course of three years he pocketed at least $750,000budgeted for feeding the people detained in his county jail. While the inmates in his jail ate meat from a package labeled “not fit for human […]

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is quietly rolling out a pair of new policies that could restrict access to books and communications for the system’s nearly 200,000 prisoners. The first of the new policies bans all books from being sent into federal facilities from outside sources including Amazon and Barnes & Noble. These retailers are […]