Prison

Pregnant women in correctional facilities are more likely to experience miscarriage, preterm birth, low birth weight infants, and potentially fatal conditions like preeclampsia.

As California struggles to comply with a court order to reduce its prison population, a new study finds that the state now spends more on its correctional system than …

All three are currently in prison while their attackers remain free. Oh, yes, and all three are black women.

People stop in Victorville California 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles because they have to see someone at one of its several prisons (federal, state, county and city) or …

An estimated 80,000 men, women and even children are being held in solitary confinement on any given day in US prisons.

While racist police practices, and the associated racialized discourse of criminality, have received national attention in the wake of SB 1070, they are nothing new to Arizona.

A Russian judge has sentenced three female u201cpunku201d rockers from the group u201cPussy Riotu201d to two years in prison for performing a protest song at a Moscow cathedral, what …

Bonding the way women prisoners do is not as common among their male counterparts, some prison officials say.

For decades, theyu2019ve helped build Americau2019s build Americau2019s criminal justice system. Now that system is changing. Can law enforcement unions change as well?

Can those who want regulatory bodies to bring bankers to justice and those who seek a radical overhaul or dismantling of America's criminal justice system work together?