The first time the Georgia Department of Corrections tried to go tobacco-free was 1994. In the mid-'90s it was trendy…
A population that perceives itself at the top of the pile soon becomes fearful, runs one theory, because the only…
On April 26, President Joe Biden announced that he was using his clemency powers to pardon three people and commute…
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s elevation to the Supreme Court from the DC Circuit was confirmed earlier this month. She’ll be…
"Tell everybody in this government that y’all need to let everybody out of jail for selling weed before y’all start…
On January 19, Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Timothy Ward deflected questions from the public about the department's understaffing crisis…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on March 25 that it will stop detaining immigrants at the Etowah County Jail…
Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the original Silk Road dark-web marketplace, was given a federal life sentence in 2015. But…
Families of incarcerated people are pressuring Massachusetts state lawmakers to pass a bill to rule out building any new jails…
Following the 2018 passage of AB 2942, California’s first-in-the-nation “prosecutor-initiated resentencing” law, Hillary Blout started the Oakland-based nonprofit For The…