Data shows Memphis police arrested more people – mostly Black men – than other Tennessee cities.

For three decades, a little-known group of “mitigation specialists” has helped save death-penalty defendants by documenting their childhood traumas. A rare look inside one case.

Data shows declines in public-sector employment, even as the private job market has rebounded.

Despite the security concerns of administrators, incarcerated people use phones to hustle, make TikToks or publicize prison conditions.

Censorship kept me from finishing a college essay behind bars. Now, prisons might keep readers from my memoir.

“Staff complacency” allowed a man to break out of a prison bus — and kill a family.

Many cities are changing how they respond to mental health calls, but less attention has been paid to the unique risks for people with Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases.

Five states now allow prosecutors to seek shorter sentences in old cases. Louisiana shows why many DAs haven’t.

Does opposing mandatory life without parole make a U.S. Senate candidate “pro-murderer”?

Richard Mack has built a “Constitutional sheriff” movement to resist state and federal authority on guns, COVID-19 and now election results. A new survey shows just how many sheriffs agree with him.