Winfield Ward Murray provides Burruss Correctional Training Center inmates with access to higher education as part of a ...

Asylum ruling: President Trump does not have the power to categorically stop asylum seekers at the southern border, a federal ...

President Donald Trump visited a new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday as state officials showcased what critics are condemning as an inhumane makeshift prison camp and ...

He is the author of two books, Prison and Social Death (Rutgers, 2015) and Structural Violence: Hidden Brutality in the Lives of Women (SUNY, 2012). He coedited the forthcoming Decarceration and ...

Accelerating the de-prisoning of America is worthwhile and possible. The benefits of a smaller prison population are not limited to those who would otherwise be locked up and the people who love them.

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off by prison guards in violation of his religious beliefs ...

Supreme Court will hear case of Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were shaved by Louisiana prison guards Damon Landor carried a copy of a ruling by the appeals court in another inmate’s case holding ...