A system designed to protect state inmates who wish to leave gangs has backfired, leading to increased violence fueled by ...

Nanon Williams was sent to death row for a murder he says he didn't commit. Decades later, through daily emails and weekly ...

Nanon Williams was sent to death row for a murder he says he didn't commit. Decades later, through daily emails and prison ...

Paul Terry’s struggle is a stark example of a problem Illinois has yet to confront meaningfully: what happens to people after ...

Criminal justice experts said TDCJ’s need for immigrant labor, even in Texas, speaks to the agency's long-standing staffing ...

This story is abridged from "Somewhere in Time, 170 years of Missouri Corrections," by Mark Schreiber and Laura Moeller.

Although many of them had criminal records, most people who died in custody had not been convicted of the crime they were in ...

As Texas enters 2026, the state’s legal docket is dominated by high-profile trials ranging from the Uvalde school shooting ...

As you might guess, the start of the new year means that people are beginning to think about their resolutions, and for many, ...