Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

When the judge set his bail at $3,000, Jonathan Broad*, 57, thought “All I want is to die free—not in jail.”. Broad was arrested in March 2016 and convicted of “criminal possession of a controlled ...

A Myth . A “crime surge” always means money for police, even if the spike in organized retail theft is a myth.. For a handful of years, the most widely cited data on organized retail theft came from ...

In the universe of legal cases impacted by anti-LGBTQ+ bias, there are few more notorious than Calvin Burdine’s. Though Burdine is most commonly known as the defendant in Texas’s “sleeping lawyer” ...

On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation's largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its failure would represent a remarkable victory for advocates ...

The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The ...

I sat there, staring at an inbox that now read zero. Just hours ago, it had the number nine, all drafts of pieces I had crafted, refined, and stored on an e-messaging service provided to me and other ...

For U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, the issue of prison re-entry is personal: Both her father and husband went through it themselves. Last week, her husband, Conan Harris, ...

Introduction. Steven Zick was 16 when he was subjected to “initiation” in the South Bend, Indiana juvenile jail. For Steven, “initiation” meant being beaten so badly by the other kids that he had a ...

In 2019, Kerry Lathan was receiving a clothing donation from entrepreneur and rapper Nipsey Hussle when assailants fired on the musician, killing him. Lathan, who was on parole at the time, was ...