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.
Keir Starmer’s Labour secures a sweeping victory, taking the helm from Rishi Sunak.
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.
A new Netflix documentary series shows what happened when inmates were free to roam the cellblock with no guards in sight.
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.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes a tactic from the progressive prosecutors he says he opposes.
Nominated stories include journalism on messy nutrition research, pickleball, government theft, homelessness, and more.
In data from over 200 cities, homicides are down a little over 19 percent when compared to a similar time frame in 2023.
The pledge, while mostly legally illiterate, offers a reminder of the former president's outlook on government accountability.
Vincent Yakaitis is unfortunately not the first such defendant. He will also not be the last.
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.
At least one inmate claims that the shower stalls, which were just 3 feet by 3 feet, were covered in human feces.
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.
Officials claim the policy is intended to prevent people from smuggling in contraband, but it allows shipments from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Michael Garrett and other Texas inmates get less than four hours of sleep a night. He argues it's cruel and unusual punishment.
Randall Mays, who has an IQ of 63, was resentenced to life without parole.
Two class-action lawsuits say Michigan counties take cuts of the exorbitant costs of inmate phone calls while children go months without seeing their parents in person.
James Crumbley, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, may be an unsympathetic defendant. But this prosecution still made little sense.
Instead of searching for gentle execution methods, states should just stop killing prisoners.
It can certainly be true that Peter Cichuniec made an egregious professional misjudgment. And it can also be true that punishing him criminally makes little sense.
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.
Mississippi's prisons are falling apart, run by gangs, and riddled with sexual assaults, a Justice Department report says.
Criminal justice advocates say the evidence doesn't back up Republicans' claims that Louisiana's landmark 2017 reforms are to blame for violent crime.
Yang Hengjun's punishment will be commuted to life in prison if he passes a probationary period. But the espionage accusations against him are highly spurious.
The new libertarian president believes in free markets and the rule of law. When people have those things, prosperity happens.
Following the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith last week, Ohio lawmakers introduced a bill to bring the execution method to their state.
Kenneth Eugene Smith was likely the first person in the world to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia.
From bite marks to shaken babies, the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences is debunking bad science.
Big government has been ruinous for millions of people. Charities aren't perfect, but they are much more efficient and effective.
An investigation from ProPublica shows that one Knoxville-area facility is putting kids in solitary but skirting scrutiny by classifying the seclusion as "voluntary."
Florida's mandatory minimum sentences created a large, elderly prison population. Now the bill is coming due.
Children held in the Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center are routinely subjected to solitary confinement, inadequate meals, and filthy cells, according to legal documents.
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