Experts fear “another potential tinderbox scenario” akin to the early days of the pandemic.

Fewer guards lead to more lockdowns, rising tensions and scant access to healthcare.

While other industries were devastated by the pandemic last year, police departments felt a much smaller impact.

Three years after the First Step Act required the Bureau of Prisons to treat more people with medications for opioid addiction, only a tiny fraction are receiving them.

Behind bars, drug use is rampant and uniquely deadly, new data shows.

The Biden administration will review thousands of deportations, permitting some immigrants back into the U.S.

In a handful of key states, no more than 1 in 4 formerly incarcerated people registered in time for the 2020 election, a Marshall Project analysis found.

As the pandemic worsened inside federal prisons, officials granted fewer releases.

Judges, prosecutors and sheriffs in many states sent people home instead of to jail last year, but new data suggests the change is not lasting.

In fiscal year 2020, border encounters dropped by half while rescue rates doubled. Experts and humanitarian groups point to a Trump-era policy that continues today.