Here are the new pro- and anti-immigration laws that states enacted from January to June 2025. Scroll down for more context.

Through threats and incentives, the administration conscripted local jails, federal prisons and private companies to detain ...

Ohio has six laws that criminalize living with HIV, leading to at least 200 prosecutions in recent years.

How Federal Prisons Are Getting Worse Government watchdog agencies found hundreds of preventable deaths and excessive use of solitary confinement.

I Was Proud of My Gift of Gab. Then I Took a Communications Class Led by Fellow Prisoners. After 16 years in Michigan lockups, award-winning poet and writer Demetrius Buckley had to relearn how to be ...

I met Shawna a year into filming “ Untouchable,” a documentary that examines sex offender laws through the lives of individuals on the sex offender registry. It was at an Oklahoma treatment center ...

Incarcerated Men at Sing Sing’s First Film Festival Reflect on Movies, Justice, and Change The diverse group of jurors shared how their favorite films have shaped their perspectives on community and ...

Trump Flouts Pardon Rules — and Costs Victims and Taxpayers More Than $1 Billion Many of the president’s recent pardons violate Justice Department policies designed to ensure fairness and public ...

The president’s new executive order defies legal precedent and proven strategies for reducing homelessness, says attorney ...

Staffing shortages mean incarcerated people are not getting vital medical care, programming and other services.

In Cuyahoga County, a jail death triggers mandatory investigations. Here’s what all Ohio sheriffs are supposed to do, and how ...