Predatory criminal legal practices have dramatically expanded since the 1980s, extracting billions of dollars from working-class Americans every year. In this workshop, Professors Joshua Page and Joe…

The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”

A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

As Georgia plans for its first execution in two years, a trove of records provides us with new information — and raises new questions — about the state’s lethal injection process.

Officials say they don’t know who installed the controversial cameras or how the data was being used. Residents are unnerved.

Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...

The move marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to exert more control over faculty at service academies.

Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.

Using removal orders as a tool to fast-track children out of the country is dangerous and unfair, lawyers for unaccompanied minors say.

Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

A new March of Dimes report finds that one-third of counties in the U.S. don't have access to ob-gyn providers or labor and delivery units.

The local sheriff ended his county’s Flock partnership, just hours after Governor Ron DeSantis ditched the technology. They’re part of a growing group of GOP leaders turning against Flock.

The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...

A local official says a federal immigration agent has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas. City Councilmember Mike Siegel says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car ...

Aminata Seck, 26, was detained while traveling as part of Kentucky State University's women's basketball team.

The Supreme Court was never meant to have the last word on self-government.

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When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.

Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...

Our September 2026 report Youth Behind the Fence brings to light a pattern of traumatization, criminalization, and widening racial inequality in the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice…

Across the United States, states have shown little progress with respect to racial, ethnic, gender, and professional diversity among state supreme court justices.