Advocates say the Cook County Sheriff’s Department’s house-arrest policies trap Chicago women in unsafe situations.

For the past seven summers, I have lived in solitary confinement without air conditioning. A trip to medical during a heat wave helped put the climate crisis into perspective.

Victor Dempsey is a policy expert, organizer, advocate, and brother of Delrawn Small, who was killed by an NYPD officer in 2016. The New York governor is making an appeal to “mob justice” as she ...

Internal Report Details Severely Malnourished Detainees at Atlanta-Area Jail The facility’s medical provider described people with mental illness wasting away in a unit overrun by an outbreak of lice ...

Midterm Elections Deliver Some Good News for Criminal Legal Reform Midterm election results show the bad-faith “crime wave” narrative failed to con a critical mass of voters, who instead want a less ...

Louisiana Wants to Jail Kids at Angola Prison’s Old Death Row An upcoming court ruling could decide the fate of a plan to detain “problematic youth” at a facility that previously housed prisoners ...

County officials agree that conditions have deteriorated at L.A.’s Inmate Reception Center. But they’re resisting calls for substantive change.

The past 28 years of Angel’s* life are laid out in court files—dozens of them—starting with a drug arrest in March 1994, when he was 19 years old. Now 47, Angel has been arrested by San Diego County ...

For the wealthy backers of the Boudin recall, “progressive” prosecutors are the perfect scapegoat for what they see as threats to a system that treats them just fine.

The New Law Enforcement Spending Spree Is Already Underway Billions of dollars of federal COVID relief aid are flowing to police, prisons, and jails in jurisdictions across the nation. Photo by ...

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, “prison warehousing”—which used to be a derogatory term—would look like an upgrade. At least warehouses care about the value of the goods they store.

How Alvin Bragg Rejects Bill Bratton and Broken Windows Policing The Manhattan DA candidate makes his case that more incarceration does not bolster public safety, one week from the Democratic primary.