Prisons

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.

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

The story of Tamms Correctional Center is the story of what may be the last throes of the supermax movement, and what a campaign against torture accomplished in less …

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

Schools are more and more beginning to resemble maximum-security prisons, but at least at most of those institutions, there is one hour of outdoor time.

Illinois provides a new model for dismantling debtors' prisons across the country.

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?