Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

Researchers have found that, in the United States, individuals who live in a high incarceration county have increased risk for stroke death.

Racial Injustice in the United States” PHOTO COURTESY OF BLOOMSBURY.COM In 1982, Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs. Just three years later, ...

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment rate was at crisis point in 2009. Since then, it's risen from 20% to ...

The Sentencing Project released a report on Wednesday detailing the barriers that prevent incarcerated people from voting in ...

Jacque Schrag/Axios Almost all states allow jails and prisons to charge incarcerated people medical and "room and board" fees, locking them into cycles of debt and possibly more incarceration, an ...

Gingerly exploring an overgrown gulch about 20 minutes west of Pearl Harbor, the serenity punctuated only by the chatter of ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he suffered severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation and psychological torture in the notorious El ...

For more than 40 years, the United States—a nation that putatively cherishes freedom—has had one of the largest prison systems in the world. Mass incarceration has been so persistent and ...

The question now is what a shaken Islamic Republic in dire economic straits will do with what Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, a moderate, has called “a golden opportunity for change.” ...

In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ historic speech, 20 currently and formerly incarcerated Americans explain what ...

The press release also confirmed a full-service pharmacy with a drive-through, streetside grocery pick-up and delivery, an in ...