Justice and Prosperity Reviving the Economic Potential of America’s Justice-Involved Communities and Individuals (and the Role of the Press) More than 30 top practitioners, academics and private ...

Despite being placed on paid leave for more than a year for forwarding a racist email chain that included pictures that were determined to negatively portray Black people, and that bore the ...

A Justice Department watchdog report reveals that the Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee in Florida is operating far below acceptable standards in caring for and housing its prison ...

A recent report from the Prison Policy Initiative found that Black people make up the majority of Connecticut’s prison population, Edwin J. Viera reports for the Public News Service. Despite ...

At least 423 victims of domestic abuse, 601 victims of human trafficking and 749 of “modern-day slavery” were reported to immigration enforcement during the same time period.

The West Virginia Senate has passed a bill that would make interfering with a police officer and causing their death a felony punishable by up to life in prison.

The American Bar Association passed a resolution this week urging the US Supreme Court to adopt a binding code of ethics similar to the code that covers lower-court judges.

On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced an agreement with City National Bank. Officials described the settlement as the largest ever secured by the DOJ against a bank for illicit ...

Salemme, who once helmed the Patriarca crime family in Boston, died last Tuesday in prison custody at 89 years old while serving a life sentence for the murder of a nightclub owner.

“Chronically understaffed Texas prisons set stage for prison bus escape and massacre of family” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that ...

Instead of trying to fix individual parts of the justice system, states should create a single regulatory agency that manages police, courts and corrections, proposes an Oregon Law Review paper.

When I started covering prison education last year, I sent out a lot of messages asking people what kinds of educational programs were offered at their prisons. It took Jennifer Graves, who is ...