What happened in Mississippi when no one wanted dangerous, low-paying guard jobs.

Courts often order children who break the law to pay thousands of dollars in restitution to victims—even when the victim is an insurance company.

How the dangerous prisoner transport business has dodged responsibility for “gross negligence.”

Can New York City build its way out of mass incarceration?

Tattoos, beards and past drug use are okay. What next?

It’s not how many, it’s how you use them.

More than a year ago, Nevada death row prisoner Scott Dozier gave up his legal appeals and asked to be executed. He’s still waiting.

Being stripped of parental rights while in prison, even for minor crimes, is “the family separation crisis that no one knows about,” one advocate said.