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.

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.