Why did Americans elect a felon instead of a prosecutor? Blame it on justifiably diminished confidence in our criminal justice system.

DORSET prisons are overcrowded, according to latest figures, and short jail terms are set to be scrapped to fix the national issue.

A federal judge on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment of an independent manager to ...

Faith leaders and people of faith are among the best-positioned to mount a powerful countermovement — and should make every ...

The majority of people who commit crimes will stop doing so as they age, and the U.S. imposes life sentences on a staggering ...

I hate coming here,” Robert Ricks said. Ricks sat at the focal point of a hearing room in the New York state legislative office building. He’d traveled to Albany last Wednesday to testify for a second ...

We've also been able to like, get the, FCC to increase regulation of the system. Specifically, I should say, of prison telecom ... Grateful American Foundation, and Draper Foundation.

American actor Cooper Koch achieved major success after playing Erik Menendez in the biographical crime drama series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

For many felons, prison ends, but the damage doesn’t. They struggle with post-incarceration syndrome — a PTSD-like condition ...

Incarcerated Americans experience less humane treatment than the POWs held in the United States during World War II, UVA ...

The United States spends 30 billion dollars on foster care each year. Yet, according to author Claudia Rowe, the results have too often been damaging for the children in that system.