Critics of the US criminal justice system have often pointed to the “tough on crime” politics originating during the Nixon ...

A law meant to help victims of domestic violence often results in their arrest. One woman details surviving abuse and the ...

Nonprofit House of Psalms 23 provides vast programs like job readiness training and literacy workshops to support women who come from incarceration or domestic abuse. Due to donations and grants, each ...

JPATS, the U.S. Marshals’ prisoner air transport system, securely moves inmates nationwide using a dedicated fleet. One pilot, MAV, the first female to fly JPATS jets, shares her journey—from a ...

Having an Afro or dreadlocks can mean solitary confinement. Meanwhile, going with mandated hairstyles may be life-threatening ...

Baltimore filmmaker John Waters (voluntarily) spent the night in jail with four winners of an auction to raise money for the ...

A group of eight female members stationed at the Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, NY, were housed in prison facilities where they were allegedly subject to “humiliating surveillance” by ...

Junmyung Lee, a 32-year-old Korean man residing in Dedham, was sentenced to one year in prison, to be followed by one year of ...

Maria Lepere and Charlotte Pohl, 18 and 19, arrived in Hawaii on March 18 with short-term travel permits ahead of weeks-long ...

The appointment “booker” involved in an interstate commercial sex ring in greater Boston and Virginia that authorities said ...

We had already noticed a little bit of what was going on in the U.S. But at the time, we didn't think it was happening to ...