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PA state prisons have become costly nursing homes, hospitals and care facilities for elderly inmates. House Bill 1550 promises to change that

Designed to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires, despite two deaths.

Incarcerated journalists detail the first signs of a heat wave in prison — and how they’ve coped with record-breaking temperatures.

Twenty-five million. That’s the number of license plates scanned so far by Philadelphia’s expanding network of automated license plate readers (ALPR) after about 100 fixed cameras started operating in...

City & State examines the ongoing debate over second-degree murder sentencing and what comes next as lawmakers struggle to reach a consensus on how to reform the state’s felony sentencing statute.

Lawyers are appealing to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which had urged the release of Leonard Peltier.

The Abolitionist Law Center, where Sanaa Akindele ’28 JD is interning this summer, is a non-profit law firm based in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia that supports litigation on behalf of people

Pennsylvania lawmakers missed a court-imposed deadline to rewrite the state's second-degree murder law after the Supreme Court struck down mandatory life without parole.

Vivid flashbacks, extreme anxiety and feelings of isolation continue to plague me 22 years later.

Detention was sold as both a law-and-order necessity and an economic opportunity, welding together the rac­ist politics of the drug war with the rise of private prisons.

The former Black Panther’s lawyers ask a UN panel to review his detention after US legal avenues were exhausted

We bring you this series on popular constitutionalism—local, organic farm-to-table making of legal meaning—as a thought experiment.

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As Chicago’s top cop steps down, police are making fewer traffic stops. But our new investigation finds half of stops are still not being reported to oversight agencies, despite a state law mandating ...

The board has used closed-door committee meetings to discuss uses of force, healthcare, and other issues.

One Million Experiments explores snapshots of community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.

Two months after a group of inmates beat a man to death inside the Allegheny County Jail, binding his wrists with a mesh bag and leaving his cell spattered with blood, it remains unclear how such a br...

The impact of the War on Drugs continues to be felt in how it dramatically expanded the use of pretrial detention and bail.

Protesters at ICE's Prairieland facility recieved far harsher sentences than anyone from Jan. 6's violent mob

Please join us on Thursday, July 2 at 6:00 PM as we discuss updates on efforts to end PA's mandatory life without parole sentences for 2nd-degree murder following the PA Supreme Court's March 26th Commonwealth v. Derek Lee decision that they are unconstitutional.

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...

On June 16, the PA Supreme Court handed down a decision that will block Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner from pursuing justice on behalf of incarcerated people.

A law forces people in federal prisons to file grievances before they can sue in court. But less than 2% of filings are granted.

I Have No Way to Pay My Six-Figure Restitution

The stress and conditions of incarceration can lead to health issues at younger ages than normally expected.

A recent book contributes firsthand testimony on the violence of solitary confinement and helps frame the question of why it has proven so central to mass incarceration.

While some groups had issues with components of the proposal, the move rankled criminal justice advocates who have long sought to eliminate mandatory life sentences for those convicted of felony murde...

Former University of Pittsburgh student Muhammad Ali faces three felonies for a brief tug-of-war with an officer over a metal barrier.