Public attention to violence against women tends to surge in response to major events and movements, then recede just as…
One of the most commonly cited statistics in corrections department promotional materials is the one about how 95 percent of…
Aliza Kaplan spends most Wednesday nights inside Oregon State Penitentiary, the state’s only maximum-security institution. Kaplan, a law professor and…
The informal, prisoner-led writing club at South Central Correctional Facility in Tennessee has a dozen or so members. Earlier in…
In late 2024, Ontario had the most safer supply programs of any province in Canada. Then the provincial government banned…
San Francisco’s controversial Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation, and Triage (RESET) Center has a new public dashboard, the first data from…
One morning in July we wake to rumors of being on lockdown, which happens at least once a month these…
At 6:50 am on Tuesday, July 7, Houston resident Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was on the way to his work of…
The federal Bureau of Prisons plans to permanently close six facilities, citing extreme understaffing and “decades of deferred maintenance." The…
Twenty-five years ago, prosecutors offered T a deal: 15 years, with eligibility for parole after 12 years and nine months.…