Is Criminal Justice Reform Leaving Small and Rural Communities Behind?
A new report shows that the recent trend of reducing prison populations is heavily an urban phenomenon.
A new report shows that the recent trend of reducing prison populations is heavily an urban phenomenon.
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New amendments to rules default to placing prisoners on the basis of their "biological sex."
The FIRST STEP Act would result in the immediate release of about 4,000 federal inmates, advocates say.
Plus: YouTube shooter bought and registered gun legally.
Government misconduct a big driver of exonerations last year.
Somebody tell the president.
"Time is truly of the essence here," said a lawyer for women imprisoned at Santa Rita Jail.
Potential pretrial reforms for those locked up in Nashville, Atlanta, Philly, or the Golden State.
Lawmakers are right to seek occupational licensing reform.
"We will embark on reforming our prisons to help former inmates who have served their time get a second chance."
"This is a profoundly damaging practice. It destroys people."
Texas alone bans 10,000 books, including The Color Purple and Where's Waldo?
Il Caffè, a Swiss newspaper, writes about American private prisons
Court-ordered program provides slave labor to private companies says new ACLU of Oklahoma lawsuit.
The threat comes three years after officials agreed to improve the disastrous lack of healthcare.
Maybe reparations from the federal government are in order.
Because that's a thing that happens in the United States.
Brenda Menjivar Guardado is scared to go back to El Salvador, but she's even more afraid of dying in custody.
Legislation tries to end lack of money as an excuse for keeping non-dangerous people in cells until trial.
The Detroit Crime Lab, shut down in 2008 for negligence, switched test bullets with autopsy bullets in order to convict Desmond Ricks.
Costs are rising even as the prison population gets smaller.
Senators drafting massive combination bill with "Kate's Law" and "Back the Blue" mandatory minimum sentences that are expensive, unneeded.
No, it's not just some corporate conspiracy.
Man died after seven days without water in Milwaukee County's jail.
Florida's anti-opioid laws were supposed to take high-level traffickers off the streets. Instead, they put low-level users in prison for most of their lives.
Brown just got out of prison this past November after four years behind bars for his association with "hacktivists."
Tulsa County owes $10.2 million in damages.
Will Jeff Sessions use his new power to enforce a bill he co-sponsored?
Incident occured in 2012, the investigation was launched two years later after a local paper started asking questions.
One panel promotes fear-based control over who drives Uber cars. A second panel illustrates what ultimately happens.
Everything from official misconduct to bad eyewitness identifications to false confessions played roles.
Author of Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform talks about why ending the drug war isn't enough.
Even with the best of intentions, using jails to house the mentally ill is a bad policy.
New initiatives by criminal justice groups will target state-level reform, where 86 percent of U.S. prisoners are held.
Mistakes were made, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice admits. Blowing the whistle was the unforgivable one.
"I don't know what stopped me from beating my head on those bright, white walls."
The percentage of adults under correctional supervision last year was the lowest since 1994.
A new report concludes that two-fifths of Americans in prison don't belong there.
About 3,000 of those were in solitary for six years or longer.