Lawmakers brace for a U.S. Supreme Court case that could affect voting rights for Black Mississippians in particular.

In a prison system rife with drugs, a new civil rights lawsuit accuses the Missouri DOC of punishing people for addiction, ...

News Inside Issue 22 takes a hard look at how incarcerated women face unique challenges — and why their stories deserve to be ...

A federal lawsuit filed in 2016 argued that the county’s misdemeanor bail system effectively jailed people for being poor, ...

Black Mississippians won a Voting Rights Act case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But that ...

Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

Melvin Cancer was killed by guards beating him inside the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, a new report shows.

Shot over two years, the Critics’ Choice-nominated film values quiet moments. “We’re trying to refuse a spectacle,” says director Nimco Sheikhaden.

For New York City’s mayor, the hard part isn’t deciding whether or not to shut down Rikers, but figuring out how to do it safely and in a timely way.

Our reporting shows that in at least 49 states, plus Washington, D.C., foster care officials obtain federal benefits intended for children in their care. In collaboration with NPR, The Marshall ...

Ayanna Harris-Rashid was sitting up in bed, her newborn son latched to her breast, one hand scrolling on her phone, when the police called. She was wanted on a felony charge of child neglect.

America’s prison population is rapidly graying, forcing corrections departments to confront the rising costs and challenges of health care in institutions that weren’t designed to serve as nursing ...