Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

I was recently moved to a prison cell with a window after years without one. I never realized how much I’d taken the snow for granted.

A Department of Justice investigation confirmed the GDC hides the number of people killed inside Georgia Prisons.

The investigation also found that in these crisis situations, police used force against Black people—especially Black men—at ...

New York should enact the Second Look Act, which lets people apply for resentencing after serving 10 years or half of their ...

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne—two men sentenced to life despite ...

Media focus on killings obscures many cases of non-fatal force, MindSite News-Medill investigation shows.

On the first day of his second presidential term, Donald Trump severely restricted transgender prisoners’ access to safe housing and proper medical care. Trump’s series of sweeping executive orders ...

As of Thursday afternoon, more than 180,000 Los Angeles residents have been ordered to evacuate as deadly fires ravage the city. Hurricane-force winds reaching up to 100 miles per hour whipped the ...

Local law enforcement officials face major decisions regarding the extent to which they will cooperate with ICE and assist the federal agency in enforcing federal immigration laws. This was on full ...