I am the ONLY female being held in a male prison here in New Jersey all because I am transgender,” Gia Valentina told ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged 15 Minnesota residents with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer after they participated in protests against ICE’s mass deportation campaign in ...

Attorneys with the New Jersey public defender’s office are seeking a new trial for Maria Montalvo, a former nurse who was convicted of burning her children to death more than two decades ago. Montalvo ...

A federal lawsuit filed by West Virginia prisoners alleges that Aramark Corporation serves inedible, low-quality food in its prison cafeterias to drive customers to its food-for-purchase programs.

After 34 years in prison, 67-year-old Cat Reed is suffering from sarcoidosis in the lungs, thyroid disease, sciatica, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes, which she blames on decades of starchy ...

This story is being co-published by In These Times and The Appeal. Leading for-profit prison companies donated about half a million dollars to Republican members of Congress currently in office, and ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for the celebrities detained there, but hundreds of other people at the jail face inhumane conditions. The Metropolitan Detention Center in ...

This story is part of the Inside/Out Journalism Project by Type Investigations, which works with incarcerated reporters to produce ambitious, feature-length investigations, with support from the ...

The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The ...

Retail theft has dominated headlines, earnings calls, and political rhetoric for the last few years. Television news shows loop seemingly endless clips of people shoplifting. CEO’s claimed that retail ...

More than a decade ago, Illinois correctional officers allegedly attacked, sexually humiliated, and tortured hundreds of prisoners. At the end of March, a lawsuit filed on the victims’ behalf is ...

On the first day of his second presidential term, Donald Trump severely restricted transgender prisoners’ access to safe housing and proper medical care. Trump’s series of sweeping executive orders ...