The Nation-- On May 23, the US Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision ordering California to release tens of thousands of inmates from its overcrowded prisons on the grounds that their living ...

The U.S. Justice Department says it has reasonable cause to believe that Georgia violates the Eighth Amendment by failing to protect incarcerated persons from violence and sexual abuse, and by failing ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Crime must have consequences; I’m sure we can all agree on this point. How we go about creating those ...

A second federal judge halted the transfer of three transgender inmates into a male prison facility that followed President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order requiring federal accommodation ...

Christopher Boose awoke to see a sign for the paraplegic unit at the hospital where he had arrived five hours earlier, shackled and drifting in and out of consciousness. “Cut it off,” he remembered ...

The state has some of the country's most overcrowded — and troubled — prisons. Alabama is also home to a thriving life skills program that... Budget Cuts Threaten A Unique Alabama Prison Education ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air ...

As the Trump administration rounds up people it alleges to be illegal aliens and gang members, deports them to El Salvador, and pays to imprison them there without convicting them of any crime, ...