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.

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

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, ...

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.

Shattered teeth. Punctured lungs. Broken bones. Over a dozen years, New York State officials have documented the results of attacks by hundreds of prison guards on the people in their custody. But ...

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

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.

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