In the harsh corridors of the American prison system, stories of fear and survival echo through the walls. Among them is ...

The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...

Some were arrested for acts of corruption, and others for sexually assaulting inmates. When people discuss prison reform, they usually talk about large, institutional changes to the system that would ...

While the U.S. criminal justice system is far from perfect, addressing its shortcomings requires reform, not abdication of ...

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Maryland’s prison system has some of the worst racial disparities in the nation – outpacing even Mississippi and Alabama. According to the Sentencing Project, 82 percent of Black Marylanders ...

The murder conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin needs to be reexamined on the basis of facts alone.

The Wisconsin Assembly passed a slate of criminal justice related bills Thursday, including a requirement to revoke probation ...

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...

Two Legislative District 18 lawmakers want to see improvements to South Dakota’s prison system but not through the ...

In the past decades we have been able to observe judicial reactions to democratic backsliding both in Hungary and Poland. While judges in Hungary have seemed to adopt the typical restrained approaches ...