Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

New Hearing for Man Sentenced to Life in Prison Despite Not Guilty Verdict In 2001, a jury found Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne not guilty of murdering a police officer. But, thanks to a ...

LA is Locking Up More Mentally Ill People, Despite Diversion Efforts In 2015, Los Angeles County created a program to reduce the number of mentally ill people trapped in jail. But since then, the ...

The Slow Death of a Prison Profiteer: How Activism Brought Securus to the Brink On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation’s largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the ...

Introduction Big Tobacco’s Master Settlement Agreement in 1998 was the largest civil settlement in the nation’s history and a transformative moment in the industry’s control. The accord reached by 46 ...

Introduction Every morning, Samantha packed her children’s school bags with their clothes, toys, and a toothbrush, uncertain of where her seven-member family would sleep that night. Her brother’s car, ...

A majority of the protesters are in their teens and twenties. A handful are in their thirties or forties. Of the 66 protesters, 27 are still fighting their cases in court, 12 have charges pending, and ...