Reopening Alcatraz Is an Expensive, Unnecessary Pipe Dream
The Bureau of Prisons is struggling to staff the prisons it currently operates. Reopening Alcatraz would be unrealistic and redundant.
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?
The bill would also create mandatory minimum jail sentences for fleeing the police.
Fogel's story closely mirrored that of Brittney Griner's. But he did not receive the same urgency from the Biden administration, even though he was arrested six months prior.
Yet its penitentiary centers are already running at over 300 percent capacity.
Frontier magazine's Peter Gietl and Salvadoran journalist Ricardo Avelar debate the merits of Nayib Bukele's criminal justice policies.
Like many of his other "Day 1" decrees, the order seems more concerned with scoring points in the culture war than advancing sensible policy.
"Jesus said, 'Love your enemy.' Jesus didn't say, 'Execute the hell out of the enemy,'" the Catholic nun and anti–death penalty activist tells Reason.
Charities can focus resources on those who genuinely need a hand while saying no to those who just need "a kick in the butt."
The recent ruling means that on the stand those women may be subject to speech policing from their alleged rapist—who has opted for self-representation.
The fiasco around the “Syrian prisoner” filmed by CNN demonstrates that sometimes institutions aren’t the best judges of misinformation.
Brandy Moore, who stopped using meth midway through her pregnancy, was charged with "aggravated domestic violence" because she decided not to have an abortion.
Joe Biden ran on some good ideas to reform policing and incarceration, which he mostly failed to deliver.
The problems with these test kits are well-known, and there have been hundreds of documented cases of wrongful arrests based on them.
Amanda Knox falsely confessed to murder after law enforcement subjected her to "psychological torture." Now she wants to stop it from happening to others.
Families whose loved ones died in federal prisons describe outrageous delays in being notified, ignored phone calls, and troubling discrepancies in the official reports.
Ksenia Karelina was prosecuted as part of a larger “treason” crackdown that is unprecedented even by Russia’s illiberal standards.
Roberson was scheduled to become the first person in the country to be executed based on "shaken baby syndrome" evidence, until Texas lawmakers subpoenaed him to testify.
The government will prevent prisoners from getting TEXAS LETTERS, an anthology about experiences with solitary confinement.
South Carolina bans all media interviews with incarcerated people, a policy the state's ACLU chapter says is the most restrictive in the country and infringes on its First Amendment rights.
Daniel Horwitz often represents people illegally silenced by the government. This time he says a court violated his First Amendment rights when it gagged him from publicly speaking about a troubled state prison.
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.
When those on parole or probation are included, one out of every 47 adults is under “some form of correctional supervision.”
Last year, one prison's temperatures stayed above 100 degrees for 11 days.
Under the law, the feds couldn't deny you a job or security clearance just because you've used marijuana in the past.
The move would lower the per-minute cost precipitously and allow inmates to better keep in touch with friends and family.
Hacktivist-journalist Barrett Brown sets out to settle scores in his new memoir.
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