There’s language in the Arkansas Constitution that has exceptions for slavery or involuntary servitude, but a bill recently filed in the Arkansas House is looking to erase that.

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose prison sentence on corruption charges ...

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

New York’s prisons are teeming with aging inmates at increasing costs to the taxpayer, and people are no safer from crime, ...

The closure of these facilities could have significant negative impacts on not only the employees and their families, but our ...

The building, with “Statue of Liberty views,” will house low-income residents and formerly incarcerated individuals.

Feb. 7 A group of states that sued Trump over last week’s sweeping federal grant freeze alleged in a filing they “continue to ...

Following Mississippi Today's investigation into a hazy legal theory used to imprison women who used drugs during their ...

The Kentucky Department of Corrections said last month that 67 state inmates are taking hormones to treat gender dysphoria. A ...

In Colorado, a man who rapes a child — as long as it is just once — can get probation. As in, walk right out of the courtroom ...

In Colorado, a man who rapes a child — as long as it is just once — can get probation. As in, walk right out of the courtroom ...

A fence with barbed wire encircles the water tower across from the state women’s prison in Shakopee. A plain chain-link fence lines the Catholic cemetery. But five years after local ...