Through threats and incentives, the administration conscripted local jails, federal prisons and private companies to detain ...

In This Police Youth Program, a Trail of Sexual Abuse Across the U.S. Explorer posts, overseen by the Boy Scouts, are supposed to foster an interest in policing. They have faced nearly 200 allegations ...

Ohio has six laws that criminalize living with HIV, leading to at least 200 prosecutions in recent years.

Louisiana, New York and other states are rolling back reforms — and efforts to reduce excessive sentencing or expand parole are smaller in scope.

Will Drug Legalization Leave Black People Behind? Even in states that have legalized or decriminalized marijuana possession, Black people are still more likely to be arrested for it than White people.

How Federal Prisons Are Getting Worse Government watchdog agencies found hundreds of preventable deaths and excessive use of solitary confinement.

In St. Louis, a Racial Disparity in Whose Killings Get Solved In the past decade, police solved fewer than half of the homicide cases with Black victims and two-thirds of the cases with White ones.

‘Trump Remains Very Popular Here’: We Surveyed 54,000 People Behind Bars About the Election Support for the former president is strong inside prisons and jails — even as his party tries to roll back ...

State foster care agencies have been taking benefits that belong to some of the most vulnerable kids. Here’s what to ask to see if it’s happened to you — and how to ask for your money back.

America’s experiment with Scandinavian-inspired prison units is growing — and being tested.

How Trump’s Immigration Orders Represent a Seismic Shift on Enforcement The president’s actions move the federal government toward his promised hardline position. But some executive orders will face ...

I Was Proud of My Gift of Gab. Then I Took a Communications Class Led by Fellow Prisoners. After 16 years in Michigan lockups, award-winning poet and writer Demetrius Buckley had to relearn how to be ...