Why Prisoners Get The Doctors No One Else Wants Even after a major class action suit required Illinois to revamp its prison healthcare system, doctors whose alleged neglect resulted in major injury or ...

Kamala Harris’s Criminal Justice Record Killed Her Presidential Run Harris’s record as a prosecutor was representative of a politics of the past. The nation has moved on.

On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation's largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its failure would represent a remarkable victory for advocates ...

Why Women’s Wrongful Convictions Are So Difficult to Overcome Outdated stereotypes and crimes that never occurred create unique challenges for women seeking exoneration. Artem Gavrysh | Unsplash ...

New York Senator Makes the Case for Defunding the NYPD “These changes won’t be made unless we demand them loudly and relentlessly,” says state Senator Julia Salazar. May 31, 2020 in New York City ...

Many cities have created non-police crisis response teams. These unarmed first responders often answer 911 calls for mental health crises.

Spotlight: In A Study of Cops’ Facebook Accounts, 1 in 5 Had Posted Racist, Violent Content On Saturday, Injustice Watch and BuzzFeed News published an investigation into racist and violent social ...

Qualified Immunity: Explained How a 60-year-old legal doctrine lets law enforcement officers off the hook for civil rights violations. Illustration by Hisashi Ohkawa.

Emails show Virginia Department of Corrections officials discussing how to punish people at Red Onion State Prison who self-immolated.

The high-stakes litigation involves issues ranging from whether the companies deceived the public about climate change to fine points of federal jurisdiction. Big Tobacco’s Master Settlement Agreement ...

Justice in America Episode 27: Junk Forensic Science Josie Duffy Rice and guest co-host Zak Cheney Rice talk with Radley Balko, opinion journalist at the Washington Post and author of The Cadaver and ...

Voters in Louisiana, Vermont, Tennessee, Oregon, and Alabama in 2022 will choose whether to ban prison slavery this Election Day.