For eight years, Dan de Vaul has provided shelter for about dozens of homeless people on his 72-acre ranch. Now, the rancher is serving 90 days in ja...
James Bell | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
Has it become an accepted fact of life in the United States that the machinery of justice applies almost solely to people of color?
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
How the Supreme Court rules in two cases concerning juvenile incarceration could determine whether sentencing juveniles to life without parole is cruel and unusual punishment.
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 11.02.2009 | Comedy
I guess if I had to sum up all that God has taught me in three points, it would be 1. Keep it real, and 2. People are jerks, so always fake them out.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics
Families are being torn apart by deportation at the treacherous intersection of immigration enforcement and the criminal justice system.
Kenneth Hartman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books
The first time I read Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward I was in the hole for inciting a riot. At the time, I'd served only the first ten years of my life without the possibility of parole sentence.
Mark Kleiman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Could the United States have half as much crime and half as many prisoners a decade from now? Yes. But not the way either liberals or conservatives normally think about the problem.
AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home
HARDIN, Mont. — Plans for a California company to take over this city's empty jail were put on hold Monday, following last week's revelations th...
Vicki Iovine | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living
Why is there all this sentimentalism and taking of sides on the issue of whether film director Roman Polanski should serve his time?
TPMMuckraker | Justin Elliott | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
A shadowy private security company that has no known clients but claims to have helped foreign governments combat terrorism and will protect anything ...
AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it m...
Nick Carr | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
Whenever a film or TV show needs to film in a prison location, the go-to place to scout is a decommissioned jail at the Nassau County Correctional Facility.
Cheryl Saban | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living
The path to learning how to rediscover, uncover and actualize a sense of self-worth is an especially difficult road for incarcerated women, but at least those in the GOGI program are taking it step by step.
The New York Times | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
When the 43-year-old man died in a New Jersey immigration jail in 2005, the very fact seemed to fall into a black hole. Although a fellow inmate scraw...
Eric Alterman | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media
At least 36 journalists are being held captive in Iran, 26 of whom were arrested after the presidential election.
Jamie Wetherbe | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living
I was working for a nonprofit, which offersclasses -- like acting, music and even meditation -- and programs, like GED, to youth offenders. The guys at this facility are lucky: For the most part, other centers just let kids sit in cells.
New York Post | Dan Mangan | Posted 07.16.2009 | Local
The Manhattan prison chaplain rabbi under fire for organizing a bar mitzvah in the Tombs also had a TV satellite truck come to the lockup so that a Je...
Ron Kuby | Posted 07.06.2009 | Entertainment
For close to four decades, Jerry was the only "lawyer" many prisoners had. He helped thousands of people navigate their way through the legal maze that imprisoned them.
Glenn Close | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living
It was a chilly April day when I arrived at the Fishkill Correctional Facility. I was there to help tell an amazing story: The story of two men, brought together by a little, female, yellow Lab called Frankie.
AP | Posted 06.09.2009 | Home
McKINNEY, Texas — A man arrested for allegedly failing to appear for jury duty was released Saturday after spending 83 days in jail, a length of...
Anne-Marie Cusac | Posted 05.29.2009 | World
What astonished me was not the Abu Ghraib torture, but the public's shock and dismay. How could people be so surprised when so many of the same practices had already happened here?
Bill Haney | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
There are now more than 2.3 million Americans in jail or prison. In fact, the United States now has the world's largest prison population.
Geri Spieler | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living
I got an E-mail from her new lawyer two months ago. He told me that unless I return her art immediately, which is rightfully her property, he said, he was authorized to sue me.
Norm Stamper | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
Shooting an armed, hostage-holding assailant can be a life-saving act of heroism. But there's something fundamentally wrong with taking the life of someone in the state's custody.
David C. Fathi | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
Our dysfunctional criminal justice system has been a long time in the making, and no one should have any illusions that it will be fixed overnight. But there are signs that change may be on the way.
Posted 11.23.2009 | Impact