Strip searches serve as weapons of humiliation rather than security measures. In March 2018, J’Allen Jones, a 31-year-old ...

Exposing the harms of the criminal legal system and elevating solutions that keep all people safe.

We asked candidates in New Jersey’s June 10 Democratic primary election what they’ll do to keep immigrants safe.

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 ...

Retail theft has dominated headlines, earnings calls, and political rhetoric for the last few years. Television news shows loop seemingly endless clips of people shoplifting. CEO’s claimed that retail ...

On today’s quarterly earnings call, for-profit prison operator GEO Group’s new CEO announced that this is an “unprecedented time in our company’s history.” “We believe the scale of the opportunity ...

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.

This story was produced by The Appeal and co-published with Grist. On June 19, Michael Broadway struggled to breathe inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center, a dilapidated Illinois state ...

Over the last 32 years, June Hart has made La Crosse her home. She was just 13 when she moved to the small city of about 52,000 in southwest Wisconsin. In the time since, she’s given birth to three ...

“A normal heterosexual person would not be so offended […] as to murder,” a prosecutor argued in a capital case in the late 1990s in rural Illinois. “I hope you die in prison like all the rest of your ...

After author Ben Austen released a book on Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 2018, a reader contacted him with information on the high-profile killings of two police officers he’d ...