Incarceration

"Definitely a great feeling, one that's indescribable," said wife and mother Marley B who set up the surprise.

Fair chance employment measures, such as fair chance licensing and fair chance hiring (also known as "ban the box") policies, can help justice-impacted women.

Here's how and why big cities should take note.

"The people who suffer the most are, of course, the poor," said one public defender after a report showed just how many inmates remain in jail.

The decision, which applies even to those who were primarily convicted of a nonviolent offense, was made on Monday.

Publisher Human Rights Defense Center assists prisoners that are seeking legal redress for human rights violations they experience while incarcerated.

The Angel Tree program of the Prison Fellowship nonprofit aims to connect separated families during the Christmas season.

The vaccination rate for the department was 76 percent as of Monday, the last day before the deadline.

"They're some of the best employees I've worked with. They're the opposite of what people expect of them," said Down North Pizza owner Muhammad Abdul-Hadi.

Several federal judges in the Southern District of New York handed down sentences that were an average of 58 percent lower than what federal guidelines recommended, often citing brutal conditions from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Second Look reforms are grounded in an unambiguous premise: people grow, people change and people deserve second chances. Our laws should reflect this reality.

State and local justice systems need to implement sustainable approaches to keep women out of prison and jail and in the community.

We need a complete overhaul of the current criminal justice system with bold reforms, even stronger new legislation protecting Black and brown lives and a criminal justice national reentry czar to even begin to see meaningful change.

Protesters demonstrated on Sunday morning to have the Florida prison evacuated as toxic water threatens to flood the area.

The U.S. prison system is often referred to as a system of retributive justice.

Yes, it's still here, and yes, it's still legal. No, I'm not talking about human trafficking. I'm talking about an actively exploited loophole in the Thirteenth Amendment.

Over-incarceration is a blight on America.

Joe Biden has vowed to end profiteering from incarceration in the U.S. if elected president in 2020.

Out of 137 prisoners tested for COVID-19, 126 were found to be positive.

The Bureau of Prisons currently oversees the care of 143,407 federal inmates in the institutions it manages.

"Every day that goes by without action means more people will die," the ACLU has warned.

"It was starting to get really scary" said Elaine White, who has temporarily been released from incarceration.

"Governors, sheriffs, prosecutors, and the president have the power, and responsibility, to save lives," said ACLU Deputy Political Director Udi Ofer.

"We shouldn't be giving people death sentences by carelessly exposing them to this incredibly dangerous illness," Sharlyn Grace said.

The Cobb County Adult Detention Center has disputed the accusations, saying that inmates in the impacted housing block were moved from the area shortly after reporting a "slight odor" coming from the water.

Tennessee State Representative Bruce Griffey has introduced a bill which would require anyone convicted of a sex offense against a minor under the age of 13 to undergo chemical castration as a condition for going on parole.

"We had a guy a couple of weeks ago with congestive heart failure...The judge let him make bond so the county didn't get stuck with that bill," Lamar County Sheriff Hal Allred admitted.

"People with mental illness are not being treated the way they should be," Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors said.

Sanders told Iowans Saturday he believed convicted felons should be allowed to vote while incarcerated because "they're still living in American society."

We can begin to curb both of them if we give inmates the medical care and support programs that they need.