Prisons & Policing

Prosecutors should utilize the public preliminary hearing process instead of the secret grand jury proceeding.

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling ordering Louisiana to release Albert Woodfox.

Crabapple highlights the history of police brutality and also recounts the details of other black men who have died recently at the hands of authorities.

Maya Schenwar is the author of "Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better."

Your conspiracy theorist friend isn't looking so paranoid anymore.

Chicago police have one in a thousand odd chance of being held accountable for alleged abuse.

Maya Schenwar's knowledge of the criminal justice system is not purely theoretical.

The Houston Police Department has been sweeping up the cellphone data of suspects and innocent bystanders.

The Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School in Guerrero, Mexico, had a long history of student activism well before the 2014 kidnapping of 43 of its students.

Krishna 'Kris' Maharaj, now 75 years old, was handed a death sentence in 1987 in Miami after a seriously flawed trial for the murders of Derrick and Duane Moo …