A June 24 substation fire caused an all-day power outage that cut off the system that cools the Cuyahoga County jail in ...

Federal court-appointed monitors visited Hinds County’s Raymond Detention Center in May for the first time in nearly three ...

In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ historic speech, 20 currently and formerly incarcerated Americans explain what ...

Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, ...

The state Supreme Court wants to know how local courts provide lawyers, if any, to poor people after their arrest.

The concept takes into account nonphysical tactics abusers use to trap their partners. But some worry the new laws will hurt ...

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

In a term marked by rulings limiting immigrants’ rights, the court sided with several other people harmed by the criminal justice system.

Judges in Missouri Can Levy Death if Juries Deadlock. Some Say the Law Is Unconstitutional. Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a ...

Wilkes County, North Carolina, has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic, but local officials have been open to approaches for making the crisis less deadly. They recently embraced a new strategy: a ...