Prisons & Policing

With no national standards for screening police applicants, psychologists rely on tests unlikely to predict aggression.

Prison video "visits" often replace in-person visits in order to maximize profits for private companies.

Our society barely recognizes the futility of imprisoning people for onerously long sentences.

The film tells the history of the Black Panthers.

The US has the highest youth incarceration rate in the world with 336 juvenile incarcerations per 100,000 youth - nearly five times as many as the second highest country.

Barrett Brown's conviction has frightening implications for journalists and researchers of all stripes.

It's just the latest Supreme Court decision to effectively enlarge police powers and restrict Fourth Amendment protections.

After leading a controversial campaign against Mayor Bill de Blasio, the head of New York City's largest police union, Patrick Lynch, is facing an internal challenge of his own.

CCA filed a formal objection with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seeking to exclude the resolution from its 2015 proxy materials distributed to shareholders.

The petition and the letter submitted today by the bipartisan group of former attorneys general argue that high phone rates are passed on to the consumers who pay for …