Many of these same companies have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to sitting members of Congress, according to an ...

Pennsylvania requires unanimous approval from a five-member pardon board before people incarcerated on life sentences can ask ...

Washington previously sued GEO Group for allegedly violating the state minimum wage law by paying detainee workers $1 a day.

Maria Montalvo was convicted of her children's murders in 1996. Her attorneys say it was based on now-discredited forensic testimony.

This article was co-published with Solitary Watch and Truthout. Grainy footage, filmed with contraband cell phones, forms the backbone of The Alabama Solution, a 2025 Oscar-nominated documentary that ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for the celebrities detained there, but hundreds of other people at the jail face inhumane conditions. The Metropolitan Detention Center in ...

This story is part of the Inside/Out Journalism Project by Type Investigations, which works with incarcerated reporters to produce ambitious, feature-length investigations, with support from the ...

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 ...

As of Thursday afternoon, more than 180,000 Los Angeles residents have been ordered to evacuate as deadly fires ravage the city. Hurricane-force winds reaching up to 100 miles per hour whipped the ...

Last year, six prisoners at Red Onion State Prison, a supermax facility on the state’s rural west side, intentionally burned themselves, prompting scrutiny of the prison from lawmakers and the public.