The incarceration rate of Black Americans has fallen sharply in the 21st century, according to a new study, but the trend has ...

North Carolina death row inmates may be eligible for resentencing if it is determined that a Black defendant's trial was ...

A Manatee County judge denied bond for Ashley Benefield as the former professional ballerina appeals her manslaughter ...

Older Black men account for a growing share of Milwaukee drug deaths as fentanyl creeps into cocaine supplies, catching a ...

After reading a recent Sun-Times investigation on opioid deaths among a generation of Black men, WBEZ editor Alden Loury ponders the role of racism and segregation in those deaths.

Andrew Krinks talks to David Dark about his new book ‘White Property, Black Trespass' and what he thinks about whiteness, ...

A former high-ranking S.C. Department of Corrections guard bought cryptocurrency with some of the hundreds of thousands of ...

As the opioid epidemic slows, there is a growing number of older Black men in Milwaukee who are dying of fentanyl-related ...

In Pennsylvania, it’s possible to be convicted of murder and receive a life sentence without parole without ever having ...

A Rochester man convicted last month of killing a Gates business owner as she left her workplace has been sentenced to life ...

According to a December report from the Prison Policy Initiative, jails and prisons across the United States are experiencing staff shortages and no amount of pay raises, benefits, or new ...