"Youth must ask to be released from their cells to use the bathroom or be forced to use garbage pails, water bottles, food containers, or buckets to relieve themselves," the lawsuit says.
Frederick Bardell died from treatable colon cancer after waiting six months for a colonoscopy.
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi bring you another episode of Freed Up where they talk about RFK Jr.'s airport pull ups, prison gangs, welfare fraud, Avatar, and the most based fonts.
The president loves freeing people. His controversial clemency grants should not obscure the fact that the pardon power is incredibly important.
A lawsuit challenging extreme heat in a Florida prison collected temperature readings during the summer. It found brutal heat persisted day and night.
Justin Sanchez is one of more than 6,000 Americans indefinitely detained in a system that wastes money and doesn't make us safer.
For the past two weeks, Juan Barbosa Gomez has been in federal immigration detention, but he doesn't show up on ICE's online detainee locator. His family says he has valid work permit and no criminal record.
After 51-year-old Lamont Mealy was found dead in a Maryland prison cell, officials called it “natural causes.” His family’s lawsuit says guards intentionally shut off his water.
Shadowy deals and unilateral powers created Florida's notorious immigration detention camp.
Netflix's The Quilters goes inside a maximum security prison where men sew quilts for foster children.
These self-employed prisoners earned more than inmates in traditional prison jobs and were more likely than other inmates to be rehabilitated.
The Supreme Court will hear Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety this fall.
Reports of human rights abuses are piling up as the number of people in immigrant detention reaches all-time highs.
Sex offenders are supposed to be ineligible for minimum-security federal prison camps, but the rule was waived for Maxwell.
Questions about the death of Marie Blaise at a South Florida ICE detention center have lingered since she collapsed in April.
Too many government officials see dissent as the worst crime imaginable.
Two Venezuelan women were convicted of incitement to hatred, treason, and terrorism.
One former ICE detainee says he and a group of men were forced to kneel with their hands tied behind their backs and eat "like dogs."
Numerous accounts of lack of showers, overflowing toilets, and inability to meet with lawyers are emerging from the detention center in the middle of the Everglades.
Judge James C. Ho recently described a troubling phenomenon on the 5th Circuit and the government abuse it enables.
Criminal justice reform advocates are still hopeful the office can secure outside funding and bring much-needed transparency to Arizona's prisons.
Our dreams have fallen from supersonic world travel to jailing migrants who've hurt no one.
An inspector general report found there were no limits on how long federal inmates could be kept in restraint chairs or strapped to beds.
Florida's attorney general proposed using a 30-square-mile part of the Everglades to house, process, and deport detained migrants.
Reason confirmed reports of dysfunction and violence at one of those detention centers earlier this week.
Half the elevators at Federal Detention Center Miami are broken. Immigrant detainees are kept on lockdown, and lawyers can barely reach their clients.
U.S. criminal justice policies have led to a 585 percent increase in the incarcerated women’s population since 1980 and have resulted in the highest female incarceration rate in the world.
Without air conditioning, inmates are "literally trapped in a burning hot cell," according to a new lawsuit.
For nearly three years, Daniel Horwitz faced contempt of court for talking about a private prison that was one of his most frequent courtroom opponents.
A federal judge finally acknowledged that New York City won't fix the constitutional crisis at Rikers on its own, but the problem goes far beyond New York City.
The Bureau of Prisons is struggling to staff the prisons it currently operates. Reopening Alcatraz would be unrealistic and redundant.
A new ACLU lawsuit argues that the government still is not giving alleged gang members the "notice" required by a Supreme Court order.
Sentencing defendants based on acquitted conduct violates basic notions of justice.
The Supreme Court unanimously rejected that claim, upholding the right to due process in deportation cases.
What America can learn from prisons in Norway and Sweden.
The American citizen had been sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony for treason.
Families described not being told their loved one was in the hospital or even when they had died.
Although the Court lifted an order that temporarily blocked removal of suspected gang members, it unambiguously affirmed their right to judicial review.
The Homeland Security secretary's use of El Salvador's largest prison for propaganda is unethical and an endorsement of an autocratic justice system.
It's also a reminder of the disarray that ensues from strikes put on by state employees, who hold monopolies on public goods.
Did participants exhibit a natural inclination for cruelty, or were they just doing what they thought researchers wanted?
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