I am being locked up 23 hours a day with no human interaction. I believe I am being punished for being transgender.

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.

Tennessee officials say they need more high-security facilities for kids who commit crimes. Experts say this approach flies in the face of crime data and research that shows youth prisons are not…

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.

Use of pepperball guns in Illinois jails is not the norm. Of the 90 jails, 11 reported using them in recent years, and 9 others have them on hand. But one, the state’s second-largest county jail, stan...

The incarcerated population is getting older, but correctional facilities lag in menopause care. Kwaneta Harris is working to fill the gaps in women's prisons.

The incarcerated population is getting older, but correctional facilities lag in menopause care. Kwaneta Harris is working to fill the gaps in women's prisons.

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Lawyers and loved ones are scrambling to find people suddenly culled from DHS rolls.

New York prisons hold people suspected of ingesting contraband items in “special watch” cells with no running water for days or weeks.

Incarcerated workers often make less than 50 cents an hour; it could take weeks to make enough to buy a personal fan.

Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had…

An investigation into the everyday violence of prison strip searches, which incarcerated women say are a tool of abuse.

Vera works closely with government and civic leaders to urgently build and improve justice systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen…

Incarcerated writer Kwaneta Harris reflects on the tole that prison conditions take on the menopausal body.

On August 25, 2026, the Deportation Data Project at the University of California, Berkeley posted its latest release of data obtained from U.S.…

Incarcerated workers often make less than 50 cents an hour; it could take weeks to make enough to buy a personal fan.

ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving basic prenatal care and screenings

In Missouri, strapped families are visiting less and sending fewer care packages to their loved ones in prison.

Crime is more complex than the president claims. Pinning blame on a tiny subset of the population is rhetorically useful, but both crime and criminalization ...

As a person incarcerated in Texas, I know that rotten food and poor medical care are not unique to Delaney Hall.

Contracts obtained via an open records request confirm that a company called HBW Leads and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections have established several call centers since January.

Suddenly, prison mail is expensive, typed, mass-surveilled by private corporations, and held indefinitely by the carceral state.

Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump’s mass deportation, as local cops, lured by federal cash, bust scores of migrants.

An investigation into the everyday violence of prison strip searches, which incarcerated women say are a tool of abuse.