Incarceration

"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.

Officials found 95 graves beneath at the site of a new school in April.

The study also found that Republican-appointed judges give shorter sentences to women compared to Democrat-appointed judges.

If we want to have a serious discussion about the systematic oppression of minorities, we need to address the main source of this oppression: the government.

Black people are still 3.6 times more likely to be incarcerated than white people in the U.S., the Vera Institute of Justice report says.

The administration is ordering government-run facilities to transfer inmates to private prisons and said staff cuts are imminent.

Jared Kushner has been leading the White House's prison reform efforts.

At least 50 women have taken legal action against the Department of Corrections for the unlawful encounters.

More American civilians have been killed by guns over the past decade than died in World War II.

For 50,000 American children, the holidays are handcuffs, locked rooms, razor wire, pepper spray and solitary confinement.

More and more cities and universities are removing their investments to show their displeasure.

Injustices takes place inside prisons in the name of safety and security—but free from public scrutiny. It's time to expose the extraordinary truth of what goes on.

The U.S. has imprisoned record numbers of people, even as the crime rate dropped. Barack Obama made moves to change this, but Sessions is about to undo his work.

High days and holidays bring acute pain to mothers and children divided by incarceration.

Trump didn't say how he would end crime and violence, let alone what it might cost or how he would deal with the separation of powers.

Senior adviser to President Obama expresses support for bipartisan reform bill that awaits Congressional action.

An emerging field of study shows that prison uniforms make the incarcerated less likely to be rehabilitated.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree that Draconian mandatory-minimum sentences have to go—so why is it so hard to pass a bill that will actually make a difference?

The best hope, in the view of some reformers, is that they have a better chance next time.

More than 6,000 small-time offenders, who had received maximum prison sentences, will be released.

Ahead of his announced Holy Year of Mercy, the pope wrote about "the tragedy of abortion."

We need legislative reforms to abolish or reduce the length of mandatory drug sentences, with the changes made retroactive.

Four inmates escaped from hospitals or medical transports in the past two weeks, revealing what correctional experts say is a flawed system.

The two discussed the drug war, criminal reform, incarceration rates and the president's admiration of the show.

The Supreme Court in Brown v. Plata ruled that prisoners, too, have a right to survive.

Annual study shows sharp increase in prosecutors working on claims of innocence.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported a slight increase in the number of inmates in state prisons on Friday.