The state Supreme Court wants to know how local courts provide lawyers, if any, to poor people after their arrest.

Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human ...

Few trans people receive gender-affirming housing and care in the federal prison system. This executive order would make it ...

As the Justice Department slashes funding to programs across the U.S., Wilkes County’s planned recovery court was halted ...

Critics say there’s no evidence that castration prevents future sex offenses. Yet several states are weighing such measures.

An anti-drug smuggling policy has slowed the delivery of time-sensitive court documents as prison staff read letters ...

The Bureau of Prisons’ new deputy director’s past incarceration has drawn outrage from some officers — and support from ...

The concept takes into account nonphysical tactics abusers use to trap their partners. But some worry the new laws will hurt ...