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Michigan's prison system has been ordered to recognize Christian Identity as a religious group, despite concerns by state officials that…
While more white people were released from prison, more Black and brown people were going to prison in the year…
The federal government is planning to allow states to use Medicaid funds to provide drugs to combat addiction and other…
The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat people in prisons, jails or juvenile detention centers for the first…
A rap video that has been posted on YouTube filmed inside a Michigan prison cell is being investigated by Michigan…
A larger panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday again blocked California's first-in-the-nation ban on for-profit…
In a practice known all across the South as convict leasing, Black men arrested for minor offenses were put to…
Pending legislation would ease the current standard, which keeps inmates locked up who are too sick to be dangerous, critics…
New York is taking away one of the few pleasures of life behind bars: It will no longer let people…
While state officials blamed the result on a volatile market, a group of activists and impact investors had urged buyers…
America’s first penitentiary was established in Philadelphia in 1790, and it contained the nation’s first solitary confinement cells.
The Justice Department has wrapped an investigation into inmate conditions at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman.
It is no surprise that Black people in Alabama are 28% of state residents, but 43% of the people in…
Thomas Earl Braunson III had been jailed and held in 'horrible conditions' when he died behind bars on Rikers Island…
Gov. Kay Ivey has proposed the construction as a partial solution to Alabama’s longstanding problems in corrections.
In some states, more than half of prisoners have been infected, according to data collected by The Associated Press and…
Prison populations across the nation have been largely ignored during the COVID-19 pandemic as the virus ravages communities.
The instructor of the trainees was said to have been encouraging of the photo because 'people of all colors and…
CNN host and activist Van Jones talks FIRST STEP Act, criminal justice reform and soft peddling approach to interviewing Jared…
According to reports, federal prisons are so short on guards that they are drawing on civilian staff like nurses, cooks,…