Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.

Nathan Phillips, a Boston University professor who organizes with the Burlington-area coalition Building Up Resilience ...

With just one signature, California Governor Gavin Newsom can significantly curtail the state’s long-standing practice of price-gouging imprisoned people for vital items like toothbrushes or deodorant ...

This story was co-published with Truthout. Immigrants taking part in the massive hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall — the privately operated Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail in ...

After decades of protests over police violence, many cities have created non-police crisis response teams. These unarmed first responders typically answer 911 calls for people having mental health ...

At Louisiana’s Angola prison, incarcerated workers are forced to pick crops in dangerous heat. A federal judge ruled last month that a recent Fifth Circuit decision took away his power to help them.

Two audits conducted by the Orange County sheriff’s department uncovered a pattern of filing false reports that could call into question thousands of convictions. Deputies booked evidence days, and ...

The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The ...

A death sentence in Oklahoma means years in near total isolation on the state’s death row, known as H Unit. According to advocates, death row prisoners are trapped inside their cells for at least 22 ...

A judge has denied an Alabama woman’s claim that she acted in self-defense under the state’s Stand Your Ground law when she killed a man in her home in January 2018. Now, Brittany Smith will most ...

A new report de-anonymizes hundreds of officers in the city and shows more than 1,800 cops have had complaints filed about them. The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland published a report today ...

Solitary confinement in prison is incredibly harmful. Those in favor argue that it reduces violence and keeps prison officials safe. Instead, research points strongly to the opposite conclusion: that ...