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.

As part of a growing push to end the use of cash bail, a national movement is calling attention to the plight of defendants held in jail simply because they can’t afford to pay their way out.

By all accounts, 71-year-old Henry Montgomery is not the same man he was when he was 17. In 1963, Montgomery skipped school and encountered Charles H. Hurt, a plainclothes sheriff’s deputy, in the woods. In a panic, he shot and killed Hurt with his grandfather’s gun.

Alaska’s new comprehensive criminal justice reform law will reduce the prison population by 13% and save taxpayers $380 million.

Public defenders in Charlotte say restrictions on communication hinder their ability to help jailed clients.

State law makes it easier to throw Brown away than consider traumas youth face and offer them hope of rehabilitation.

The five states that have done away with commercial bond outlets still struggle with inequity when it comes to cash bail.

Case called an “embarrassment to criminal justice system.”

A new project chronicles the myriad alternative visions of justice taking place in the U.S. and Canada.

A new app seeks to liberate people from more than “liberal malaise.”