Brittany Martin, a South Carolina woman who participated in a non-violent Black Lives Matter protest, was sentenced to four ...

The attorney defending Richardson Dangleben Jr. is arguing that the U.S. Attorney’s notice that the office intends to seek the death penalty “should be struck as cruel and unusual,” but ...

Letter-writer Duncan DeMarsh’s call to “let the market decide” (July 12) the value of NPR and PBS misses the broader purpose ...

Every day, Krystal Clark struggles to breathe. The 54-year-old incarcerated woman believes mold at Michigan’s only women’s ...

From the emergence of Skid Row to the housing crisis after World War II, a look at the major events and policies that made and defined Los Angeles’ homeless crisis.

“CDCR and the corrections budget in general has been a black hole, a money pit,” said Brian Kaneda, CURB’s deputy director.

The prison staffing crisis in the US has led to dangerous conditions for correctional officers, reduced rehabilitation ...

Ohio lawmakers are moving to amend a portion of the state’s constitution that permits slavery as a form of punishment for ...

The new law makes assassination attempts on heads of state—including the president, vice president, any state governor, or ...

A lawsuit brought by several inmates in West Virginia’s correctional system raising issues about conditions under the ...

Throughout her prosecution for killing a 3-year-old girl, Alexis Herrera blamed her actions — starving, assaulting and ...

If this doesn’t sound like a horrible stain on American history to you, congratulations, you now have a perfect understanding ...