Law enforcement cameras are popping up everywhere, but many agencies have little safeguards to prevent abuse by individual officers.

In a prison system rife with drugs, a new civil rights lawsuit accuses the Missouri DOC of punishing people for addiction, rather than treating it.

News Inside Issue 22 takes a hard look at how incarcerated women face unique challenges — and why their stories deserve to be ...

Black Mississippians won a Voting Rights Act case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But that ...

A federal lawsuit filed in 2016 argued that the county’s misdemeanor bail system effectively jailed people for being poor, ...

Lawmakers brace for a U.S. Supreme Court case that could affect voting rights for Black Mississippians in particular.

Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

Melvin Cancer was killed by guards beating him inside the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, a new report shows.

For New York City’s mayor, the hard part isn’t deciding whether or not to shut down Rikers, but figuring out how to do it safely and in a timely way.

Shot over two years, the Critics’ Choice-nominated film values quiet moments. “We’re trying to refuse a spectacle,” says director Nimco Sheikhaden.

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