"[But] as you look through them, some of them have some obvious strengths and weaknesses," said Tony Venhuizen, chair of the ...

Rikers Island, which has long drawn ire over its conditions, won't be within New York City's purview during the transition.

White supremacy might limit what we can easily imagine, but through writing, we can shape more liberatory futures.

A jury on Wednesday found a former Caltrain deputy director guilty of embezzling public funds to build a personal “crash pad” ...

From the bench, U.S. District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford ordered the release of Mahdawi from prison on bail, pending the resolution of his habeas petition. The government requested that Crawford ...

Editor's note: On Wednesday, April 30, a federal judge in Vermont ordered Mohsen Mahdawi's release while his case proceeds. The April 14 detention of Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi ...

A former prison officer at HMP Swaleside who suffered racist abuse from colleagues has won an employment tribunal. Nigerian-born Uzo Mbonu said he was targeted and ostracised by other officers at ...

An Army noncommissioned officer was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for a violent campaign of sexual assaults and physical attacks on women stationed at Fort Cavazos, Texas, concluding ...

But the closures are also the result of the state’s prison-building strategy in the 1980s and ‘90s. Emily Russell spoke with Jacob Harris, a PhD candidate from Cornell University. He published ...

moving funds from capital-building projects into everyday spending would damage their prison plans. She said: “Switching spending from capital to day-to-day spending is a long-standing problem ...

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