In a lawsuit filed Thursday, a woman identified as Jane Doe accused police of shackling her to the bed while she gave…
A new report from the Marshall Project outlines how child-welfare systems take children away from incarcerated mothers,…
On Tuesday, incarcerated people around the country launched a 19-day strike, protesting the dire conditions of their…
When Cassidy Green learned that she was pregnant, she and her husband didn’t discuss cribs, co-sleeping, or even…
Meek Mill was granted bail on Tuesday following the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s order that the rapper be released from…
San Francisco’s District Attorney George Gascón announced on Wednesday that the city will be reviewing and…
In collaboration with Rise magazine, Jezebel is publishing a series of articles written by parents affected by the…
In collaboration with Rise magazine, Jezebel is publishing a series of articles written by parents affected by the…
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ordered Alabama to improve prison conditions for its mentally ill inmates on…
What image do the words “residential center” conjure in your mind? Perhaps a place where people live of their own…
The Justice Department is planning to end the use of private prisons in the United States, the Washington Post reports.…
The latest available statistics from the Justice Department document 1 in 36 adults, or 6,851,000 people, as having…
The Associated Press revealed today that the state of Louisiana has spent three years and over $1 million so far…
In a remarkably civil letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the state would comply…
As of 2010, there were around 205,000 women in prison in the United States, and a million more under some kind of…
Considering that the United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world, at 754 per 100,000 (as…
A transgendered woman incarcerated in the Massachusetts state prison system has won the right to have the state pay for…
After being arrested in 2005 for forging checks, Amber Lovill failed multiple drug tests while on probation. After…
Debra Schaefer, warden at the SCI Muncy correctional facility in Pennsylvania, treats the inmates like she treats her…
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