Prisons

After more than a decade of national legislative efforts to end prison rape, this month was supposed to produce a significant victory: formal audits of prisons and jails around …

Since the 1994 enactment of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, the police forces in many US cities have been subject to federal monitors and consent decrees.

For Lee Antione Day, and the 1,195 other former US prisoners who have been exonerated, lasting justice is far from reality.

Will Chelsea Manning be granted access to hormone therapy while at Fort Leavenworth?

President Obama was in charge when Manning spent 11 months in conditions described by the UN as cruel and inhumane and when those conditions were changed due to public …

Bradley Manning is sentenced to 35 years in military prison for leaking documents to WikiLeaks.

California's prison hunger strike has resulted in several hospitalizations and one death. And now the state may force-feed them.

Since protections were first added to protect inmates with mental illness in solitary confinement, the number of inmates diagnosed with severe mental illness has dropped.

Retired Veteran Police Officer Jack Cole: Holder falls short of addressing racist criminal justice system that has incarcerated more than 2 million Americans.

Turning unemployed Americans into very profitable prisoners is a booming business.