DALLAS — The United States may soon see its prison population drop for the first time in almost four decades, a milestone in a nation that locks up ...
Charles Shaw | Posted 12.18.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Jail is so awful that for many of its detainees a quick guilty plea and a trip to the penitentiary, even for twice as long, is preferable to staying in the County.
David A. Love | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
If you can judge a society by the way it treats its children, then New York fails in a big way. In fact, the Empire State should be found guilty of child abuse and neglect.
AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics
CLEVELAND — Former Rep. James Traficant, who was recently released from prison after serving seven years for corruption, said Thursday that he i...
HuffPost | Victoria Fine | Posted 12.16.2009 | Impact
This story is the first in HuffPost Impact's 12 Days, 12 Cities, 12 Families series, highlighting Americans who have persevered to overcome incredible...
reuters.com | Edith Honan | Posted 12.14.2009 | New York
A recent spate of exonerations in New York state has put renewed focus on the plight of the wrongly convicted, with advocates saying it is not as easy...
nytimes.com | NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | Posted 12.14.2009 | New York
New York's system of juvenile prisons is broken, with young people battling mental illness or addiction held alongside violent offenders in abysmal fa...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 12.05.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son has turned to friends in high places – including Whoopi Goldberg and Al Roker – to help hi...
Norm Stamper | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Whether Clemmons was seeking cover to pull his gun and fire, or about to flee, the officer did precisely the right thing. It was not a "cold-blooded murder", it was a courageous and necessary act.
AP | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York
TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey prisoner has won a settlement that allows him to preach at services inside the prison. Howard Thompson Jr. is an i...
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living
To save money the UC System was about to raise undergraduate tuition by 32 percent, in addition to hiking fees for professional degrees.
Posted 11.25.2009 | Impact
If you're a female convict being released from prison, you'll probably expect a few issues assimilating back into society. One thing you might not thi...
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
Late on Monday the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky suffered a rupture of the abdominal membrane causing death. How many more dead Russians will it take before the world takes notice?
ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...
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?
Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact
With shrinking endowments and funding cutbacks, most colleges would be wary of launching new initiatives. But two months ago, the New York Times repor...
Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
Thomson VIllage President Jerry "Duke" Hebeler said at a press conference Monday that bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees to Thomson, Illinois, could be...
Diane Dimond | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
America seems okay with condemning children, many who were victimized first, to die in prison with absolutely no chance of ever having a full, free life. I'm not okay with that.
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.
Pat Nolan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Maintaining the child-parent relationship during a parent's incarceration improves a child's emotional development and their behavior, and will help keep him or her from following their parent to prison.
AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 10.24.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi court on Saturday sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes after she had been charged with involvement in a TV ...
Tom Matlack | Posted 10.24.2009 | New York
I am here at Sing Sing to to bring The Good Men Project, the anthology I've edited, inside the prison -- physically and in spirit.
David A. Love | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics
Cameron Todd Willingham is now a free man, but unfortunately it took death to release him from the confines of his prison bars.
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.
AP | JEFF CARLTON | Posted 12.20.2009 | Home