In memos released this week, Trump’s new attorney general rolled back Biden-era reforms and called for harsher sentences and ...

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

New York should enact the Second Look Act, which lets people apply for resentencing after serving 10 years or half of their ...

A Department of Justice investigation confirmed the GDC hides the number of people killed inside Georgia Prisons.

The investigation also found that in these crisis situations, police used force against Black people—especially Black men—at ...

Last year, six prisoners at Red Onion State Prison, a supermax facility on the state’s rural west side, intentionally burned themselves, prompting scrutiny of the prison from lawmakers and the public.

I was recently moved to a prison cell with a window after years without one. I never realized how much I’d taken the snow for granted.

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg is a Senior Reporter for The Appeal. Based in New Jersey, she writes on prison and jail conditions, wrongful convictions, and the criminalization of disabilities. Elizabeth ...

On the first day of his second presidential term, Donald Trump severely restricted transgender prisoners’ access to safe housing and proper medical care. Trump’s series of sweeping executive orders ...

Local law enforcement officials face major decisions regarding the extent to which they will cooperate with ICE and assist the federal agency in enforcing federal immigration laws. This was on full ...