On November 19, 2014, the door clanged shut behind David Sesson and Bernard Simmons. Sesson put his hands through the food slot to have his handcuffs removed. Both men were in "disciplinary ...

The prospect of the National Guard, active-duty Army troops and military police all converging on Minneapolis sparked fear this week from residents already reeling from a wave of Immigration and ...

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Earlier this month, Josh J. Smith, who served five years in the federal prison system on drug charges, was tapped to be deputy director at the agency that had locked him up. The Bureau of Prisons ...

I n March, in a bombshell ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down mandatory life in prison without parole for a second-degree murder charge also known as felony murder.

This guide is for people impacted by the “troubled teen industry” to investigate abuses inside youth residential treatment ...

In Germany, incarcerated people wear their own clothes, live in apartment-style cells and get family day passes — all to preserve human dignity.

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Now, a new national study out of one of these collaborations between the University of California, Irvine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows that at the peak of the pandemic in 2020, people inside ...

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For more than two decades, Vincent McFadden has been sitting on Missouri’s death row. He’s watched a steady stream of his ...

Dozens of people — perhaps many more — have been held in Mississippi’s Hinds County jail for months without criminal charges ...