Hurricane Katrina forced policymakers in the city and state to fix not only some of the worst circumstances of incarceration, but also to prevent people from being held in dangerous conditions altogether.
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The shuttering of a prison debate club shows the precarious nature of free-speech rights among American inmates.
Women wore, and sometimes designed, their own clothes in California prisons until the 1990s, when the state began issuing uniforms to its female inmates.
Across the country, jails are often used as holding pens for people who can't afford to pay bail. Local groups are working to change that.
While most commerce within prisons revolves around food and hygiene products, a recent report found that digital sales are the "future of commissary."
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According to a new report, while the overall number of inmates in the U.S. is declining, some states are still seeing their prison populations rise.
A conversation with Jasmine Heiss from the Vera Institute of Justice about a recent poll that uncovers American's souring sentiment toward incarceration policy.
On the labor issues connected with using inmates as extremely low-paid workers in state and federal prisons.
Este artículo explica los problemas laborales relacionados con el uso de presos como trabajadores extremadamente mal pagados en las prisiones estatales y federales.
Two landmark Supreme Court rulings made clear that juvenile life sentences are unconstitutional. Yet hundreds remain in prison, many of them without access to educational programs.
People wait outside the Kobar prison in Khartoum, Sudan, on February 18th, 2018, to welcome their loved ones after the government released dozens of opposition activists.
Supporters of German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel demonstrate with heart-shaped balloons during a motorcade protest on February 14th, 2018, in Berlin, Germany.
A pile of tires burns as prison officers demonstrate in front of Villefranche-sur-Saône prison in Lyon, France, on January 15th, 2018.
Facing a shortage of space for inmates, Missouri's Greene County Jail opted to build an insta-prison in the parking lot. Is that OK?
But a tailored mindfulness program may negate the negative impact of imprisonment.
The rapper's experience with probation is far from unusual for ex-prisoners.
James Forman Jr.'s first book chronicles with compassion how the actions of black leaders sometimes hurt the very people they sought to save.
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President Donald Trump has restored consumer confidence in private prisons—but they were never in danger of failing to begin with.
Manning had been serving a 35-year-sentence, the longest ever imposed for whistleblowing.
A new campaign rooted in the South is getting mothers in prisons and jails across the country home for Mother’s Day.