After The Marshall Project found scores of fires set by men at a Joliet prison, legislators want improved fire safety and ...

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Adapting to public pushback, the Trump administration is pivoting to expand immigration detention bedspace nationwide.

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In 2004, when I was 16 years old, I spent 78 days in Savannah Regional Youth Detention Center. Twenty-two years later, I am ...

Nearly one-third of law enforcement agencies are missing from the FBI’s 2022 crime statistics. Use our tables to check on your state and local agencies. For the 2024 election season, we've updated ...

Shortly after being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed an order to expand the death penalty, confirming a widespread expectation that the Department of Justice may seek capital punishment more ...

The mentally ill in federal prisons are on the verge of a big victory. For many years the most famous federal prison in America, the “Supermax” facility in Florence, Colorado, held a dirty secret: ...

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