The Nation-- On May 23, the US Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision ordering California to release tens of thousands of inmates from its overcrowded prisons on the grounds that their living ...

The U.S. Justice Department says it has reasonable cause to believe that Georgia violates the Eighth Amendment by failing to protect incarcerated persons from violence and sexual abuse, and by failing ...

Christopher Boose awoke to see a sign for the paraplegic unit at the hospital where he had arrived five hours earlier, shackled and drifting in and out of consciousness. “Cut it off,” he remembered ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Crime must have consequences; I’m sure we can all agree on this point. How we go about creating those ...

Judge Lambert also found that trans-identifying inmates would be subjected to a “significantly elevated risk of physical and sexual violence” if housed with biological men. For those checking: Women ...

A second federal judge halted the transfer of three transgender inmates into a male prison facility that followed President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order requiring federal accommodation ...

Lawyers for convicted Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman have denounced his prison conditions and made several requests, including more water and fresh air and earplugs to allow him to ...

The state has some of the country's most overcrowded — and troubled — prisons. Alabama is also home to a thriving life skills program that... Budget Cuts Threaten A Unique Alabama Prison Education ...

Explore how fresh food and shared meals shape community and wellbeing inside a unique prison unit and gain hands-on qualitative research and data analysis skills. This project examines how access to ...