Funding cuts and program changes required by President Trump's big budget law are forcing states to rethink bipartisan ...

Researcher Samantha Boch has studied the impact of incarceration on child and family health for more than a decade. Her latest research examines the health records and health use of youth with ...

Since President Donald Trump signed the First Step Act in December 2018 to relax federal prison and sentencing laws, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) population has plummeted, reaching its lowest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Security fencing around the Fulton County Jail on Aug. 22, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. Security fencing around the Fulton County ...

Left-leaning think tanks never tire of talking about mass incarceration in the United States. It's particularly bad in states like Texas, Florida and New York, for example – or so we're told. But, as ...

The incarceration rate in the United States fell in 2021 to its lowest levels since 1995 – but the U.S. continues to imprison a higher percentage of its population than almost every other country. The ...

In 2010, Michelle Alexander’s best-selling book spelled out how mass incarceration harms communities of color. Assessing its impact, she looks back, and forward, with David Remnick.

Connecticut juvenile justice advocates want the state to halt plans for a new youth detention center. The latest Re-Entry, ...

Massachusetts has nearly halved its incarceration rate over the past decade, progress that researchers of a new report say was fueled by landmark criminal justice reform legislation introduced by the ...

The Albany appellate court found that the state agency lacked authority to disregard a sentencing judge's directive based on concurrent non-drug conviction.

Jacobin spoke to political scientist Marie Gottschalk about how corporate criminals have been let off the hook as prisons ...