The Reason Foundation filed a FOIA lawsuit last year seeking reviews of deaths at two federal women's prisons with numerous allegations of medical neglect.
"We are living in pure chaos," an incarcerated woman at a federal prison in Minnesota tells Reason following a string of suspected overdoses.
Under the law, the feds couldn't deny you a job or security clearance just because you've used marijuana in the past.
Hacktivist-journalist Barrett Brown sets out to settle scores in his new memoir.
Supervised release shouldn't require former inmates to give up their First Amendment rights.
First-place finishes include an investigative piece on egregious misconduct in federal prison, a documentary on homelessness, best magazine columnist, and more.
Paul Erlinger was sentenced to 15 years in prison based largely on a determination made by a judge—not a jury.
The Justice Department announced last year that it would expand a program to grant compassionate relief to federal inmates who've been sexually assaulted by staff.
The Safer Supervision Act would create an off-ramp for those with good behavior to petition to have their supervised release sentences terminated early.
Staff shortages and chronic corruption have plagued the Bureau of Prisons for years, exposing inmates to abuse and whistleblowers to retaliation.
Nominated stories include journalism on messy nutrition research, pickleball, government theft, homelessness, and more.
The pledge, while mostly legally illiterate, offers a reminder of the former president's outlook on government accountability.
In 2021, the Associated Press uncovered rampant sexual abuse at FCI Dublin. After three years of failing to fix the problem, the Bureau of Prisons is shutting it down.
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.
The White House cited the extraordinarily low recidivism rates among those released and the savings to taxpayers in its veto threat.
The author of Reform Nation explains how celebrity, philanthropy, and activism produced the most significant prison reform in decades.
The Bureau of Prisons released more than 12,000 people on home confinement during the pandemic. Three years later, Republicans want to overturn a Justice Department rule allowing those still serving sentences to stay home.
Prosecutors asked for longer prison sentences at trial and now seem to be trying again.
The issue was rejected because it "jeopardizes the good order and security of the institution."
An officer conducted the search of Prentiss Jackson's vehicle after claiming he could smell "a little bit of weed." It ultimately resulted in a lengthy prison term.
St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker has thus far managed to get immunity for upending Hamdi Mohamud's life.
"I knew they were scumbags," a former Bureau of Prisons officer tells Reason.
The records confirm medical neglect in a federal women's prison that Reason first reported on in 2020.
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Reason reported in 2020 on allegations of fatal medical neglect inside two federal women's prisons. The Bureau of Prisons heavily redacted reports that would show if women died of inadequate care.
Prison staff were fired in less than half of substantiated incidents of sexual misconduct between 2016 and 2018, and only faced legal consequences in 6 percent of cases.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission might make medical neglect a qualifying condition for compassionate release.
Long delays and management failures "allowed serious, repeated sexual abuse in at least four facilities to go undetected."
Biden should exercise his pardon power to help some of the people whose lives his criminal justice policies destroyed.
State prisons around the country ban the roleplaying game, too, because of bizarre concerns about gang behavior and security threats.
Reason first reported last week on the scathing contempt order, which said the Bureau of Prisons should be "deeply ashamed" of its conduct.
A federal judge wrote that the Bureau of Prisons should be "deeply ashamed" of medical delays that resulted in a man dying from treatable cancer.
Pardoning possession offenders is nice. Taking his boot off the necks of cannabis sellers would be even better.
The Supreme Court may soon consider if acquitted conduct sentencing is illegal.
The Federal Prison Oversight Act would create an independent ombudsman to investigate complaints about the Bureau of Prisons, something prison advocacy groups have long called for.
Criminal justice groups say the numbers vindicate their push to keep those people from being sent back to prison.
Senators allege Bureau of Prisons officials turned a blind eye to rapidly deteriorating conditions at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta.
The federal prison system is plagued by corruption and civil rights abuses.
The bill addresses treatment of women in federal prisons and sexual assault of people in police custody.
Christmas comes a few days early for 2,800 inmates who had told they’d eventually have to return to their cells to serve out their terms.
The annual photo op takes on cruel undertones as drug offenders continue to suffer under harsh federal prison sentences.
COVID-19 has led to foot dragging in implementing some FIRST STEP Act reforms.
Coercive plea deals trample on defendants' Sixth Amendment rights.
Raquel Esquivel, convicted of a nonviolent drug offense in 2009, was put on home confinement during COVID-19.
The legal doctrine continues to render juries irrelevant.
Formal sentences cover for informal penalties including crowding, poor sanitation, beatings, and rape.
