A lawsuit in Illinois charges that prisons blocking videophone capabilities violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.

With billions of dollars to spend, the Trump administration has entered into contracts with hundreds of companies, both big and small, to execute its deportation agenda. Since January 20, 2025, ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged 15 Minnesota residents with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer after they participated in protests against ICE’s mass deportation campaign in ...

At Louisiana’s Angola prison, incarcerated workers are forced to pick crops in dangerous heat. A federal judge ruled last month that a recent Fifth Circuit decision took away his power to help them.

This story was published in partnership with In These Times. The Trump administration has doled out billions of taxpayer dollars to corporations tasked with carrying out its mass deportation agenda.

This story was co-published with Truthout. In late March, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court issued a momentous ruling overturning mandatory life sentences for people convicted of felony murder, also known ...

After 34 years in prison, 67-year-old Cat Reed is suffering from sarcoidosis in the lungs, thyroid disease, sciatica, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes, which she blames on decades of starchy ...

This story is published in partnership with Truthout. For decades, corporate media and elected officials have shown little interest in reporting by incarcerated individuals on the unchecked inhumane ...

This story is being co-published by In These Times and The Appeal. Leading for-profit prison companies donated about half a million dollars to Republican members of Congress currently in office, and ...

This article was co-published with Solitary Watch and Truthout. Grainy footage, filmed with contraband cell phones, forms the backbone of The Alabama Solution, a 2025 Oscar-nominated documentary that ...

Tim Ballard, the disgraced “anti-sex-trafficking” expert, was the subject of a hit 2023 biographical film and serial sexual misconduct allegations in the same year. After Ballard’s fall, the people he ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for the celebrities detained there, but hundreds of other people at the jail face inhumane conditions. The Metropolitan Detention Center in ...