Prisons

In his new book, Matt Taibbi explains how two of the most troubling trends in the United States are interwoven: economic inequality and mass incarceration. Wealth can merit an …

The law's passage is thanks to sustained pressure from the families of shooting victims.

An elite scientific panel noted with alarm that the U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world.

In her new book, Deborah Jiang-Stein explores racial and family identity, alienation and reconciliation with adopted parents.

Families for Justice has grown into an increasingly powerful force for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women to shape the laws and policies that affect them most.

The Obama administration is talking up the possibility of using presidential clemency powers to release some prisoners, but this is not the beginning of a rollback of America's prison …

Karen J. Greenberg explores the shameful tale of why, a decade later, the Abu Ghraib affair remains without an end.

War-profiteering contractors like CACI continue to earn millions without carrying any legal risks for actions outside the US - even when they lead to torture.

Shawki Ahmed Omar, an American-Jordanian prisoner who has been held without due process in Iraq for almost 10 years, has disappeared.

A recent ‘People’ magazine cover sparks consideration of the hiding-in-plain-sight but never-discussed racism that characterizes the United States and the ways US media subtly sustain that racism.