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Alabama prisoners are suing the state for coercing them into a “labor trafficking scheme” that’s being likened to the old Jim Crow.
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Naimah McDaniels works hard to promote mental health among incarcerated people who are so often underserved.
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Innocence may no longer matter for some wrongfully convicted prisoners are a recent Supreme Court decision.
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Jazz Svarda began a hunger strike at the Santa Rita Jail after swallowing a staple he believes was intentionally placed in his food.
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After a drug conviction by Russian courts that led to imprisonment, WNBA star Brittney Griner has been able to return home.
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Senator Cory Booker and Representative Karen Bass produced a bill as an effort to reform the prison system, titled the Matthew Charles and William Underwood Second Look Act. It provides this country a chance to change the prison system and focus on the rehabilitation of convicts rather than punishment.
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A report by a human rights group revealed that lethal injections are more likely to go wrong with Black prisoners than white ones.
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Grace Elizabeth Hale, an award-winning historian from the University of Virginia, has written a book about the 1947 lynching in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi. Hale’s book, “In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning,” is more than just historical research. She discovered her grandfather, Oury Berry’s lie.
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A bill that would ban the use of solitary confinement in federal prisons, jails and detention centers was introduced to the House of Representatives on Thursday.
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When 35-year-old LeShawn Thompson died in prison after being malnourished and neglected, the government launched an investigation on Georgia’s Fulton County Jail to evaluate living conditions.
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