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Steven Moerman claims the counselor used him as "a virtual sex slave, demanding sexual gratification at her whim."
A Florida inmate can't read his copy of the magazine this month. Can you?
The NAACP just won a years-long First-Amendment fight with the city of Philadelphia.
How criminal justice reform found support on the right—and what it will take to push it further
News investigations have found that putting inmates together in cells the size of a parking space for 23 hours a day, shockingly, doesn't end well.
The rise of ramen noodles as prison currency can be blamed on cost-cutting that leaves prisoners hungry, says a new study.
Private prisons are a symptom. Mass incarceration is the disease.
Inmates in prisons and jails are three to four times more likely than average to report having a disability, new report finds.
Young black males without a high school diploma are more likely to be incarcerated than employed.
Louisiana state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson just blocked a bill that would have provided relief to those sentenced as children to life without parole.
Tighter rules on seizure and looser rules on sentences for nonviolent crimes.
Their stories begin differently but end in the same place.
Ban harms those who want to reintegrate back into society.
If statistics are true, young men sentenced to prison should breathe a sigh of relief: "At least I wasn't accepted to Harvard."
Three people convicted of non-violent drug crimes. Their stories are the stuff of nightmares.
Prison heads say it's humane and helps prisoners rehabilitate.
"An over-technical interpretation of the law" leaves the late Glenn Ford's family with no remuneration for the life he spent behind bars.
Clinton minimizes her role in advocating longer sentences and exaggerates her role in trying to shorten them.
As of this week, religious accommodation doesn't require a prison to let an inmate wear a pirate costume.
It's true, if you don't count Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Rick Perry, or Jim Webb
The former president can't decide whether he should brag about the 1994 law or apologize for it.
Louisiana denied modest financial compensation to Glenn Ford because he couldn't prove his "factual innocence."
The former president says Republicans made him support longer sentences, which were a necessary response to 13-year-old murderers "hopped up on crack."
Even the judge thinks it's "over the top," but Louisiana's "habitual-offender" law takes away his discretion.
Prison and jail policies "must allow for housing by gender identity when appropriate" say new federal guidelines.
These flawed laws need to be reformed.
A big backlog of prisoners seeking shorter sentences has gotten a lot bigger.
Cooper's new campaign flyer brags about the people he's put in prison for decades over drug sales and minor theft.
Taken from a hospital suffering from gastroenteritis straight to jail, Joyce Curnell died there of likely dehydration. All over an unpaid court debt.
Still, a Utah man died after being jailed last month over not paying an ambulance bill.
Clinton, who was for mass incarceration before she was against it, fills in some blanks in her agenda.
Life inside the Supermax archipelago
Watered down improvements to federal mandatory minimums may get watered down further.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi's request for federal court to intervene in confinement conditions at Guantanamo denied.
The most successful solitary confinement reform this year will release 1,000 prisoners.
Journalists and prisoners stage a First Amendment challenge to state secrecy regarding executions.
Likely violations of attorney-client privilege
Jailhouse black markets make a mockery of restrictions imposed in what are literally miniature police states.
A new law enforcement group favors abolishing mandatory minimums, changing felonies to misdemeanors, and winnowing down petty offenses.
Man who argued there is no legal obligation to pay income tax dies of cancer shackled to prison hospital bed at age 87.