Prison Guards Who Threw Inmate in Hot Shower, Killing Him, Committed No Crime, State's Attorney Rules
Incident occured in 2012, the investigation was launched two years later after a local paper started asking questions.
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.
And also because we "promote drug paraphernalia"
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.