On Monday, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the Bureau of Prisons not to transfer nine transgender women to men’s prisons. These were in addition to the three plaintiff’s identified in the ...

A new Ohio law will lift driver’s license suspensions for people with unpaid court fines and fees, some of which stretch back years. Along with the new law — which takes effect April 9 — come several ...

Under Trump, the U.S. increasingly sends immigrants all over the nation with little warning, leaving families and attorneys ...

A major legal win for Black Mississippians that was supposed to lead to new elections for the state Supreme Court was wiped ...

F ifty years ago, in the wake of the 1971 killing of Black Power activist George Jackson, a friend of his at San Quentin ...

Reporting by The Marshall Project - Cleveland leads to sentencing of former longtime Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze for steering ...

In recent decisions, the justices restricted the bipartisan First Step Act that President Donald Trump signed in his first ...

The Harlem MC explains how prison gave him the freedom to rap about more than material things. This essay is part of ...

Attorneys for the federal prison system agreed last week to pay $95,000 to a transgender woman who had alleged in dozens of lawsuits that she had been abused and mistreated in its custody by both ...

Sandra Hafraoui spent months trying to bring her husband home after ICE detained him on a 16-year-old deportation order he ...

A criminal court sentenced Harold Doby III to a $155,000 restitution. Falling behind could send him back to prison.

What do you really know about the lives of the roughly 1.2 million Americans in state and federal prisons? Pop culture tends to overemphasize the violence and chaos while downplaying the monotony of ...