New York’s controversy over scanning mail in prisons reflects a national debate involving security and privacy.

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

Leona Godfrey was sitting down to dinner at a TGI Fridays in Orange, Connecticut, in December 2013 when she glanced at a television and saw her little brother’s name on the local news. Davon Eldemire ...

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

The New Battle Over an Old Institution: Forced Prison Labor Inside the latest legal and legislative efforts to close state constitutional loopholes that allow slavery as punishment for a crime.

Many of the president’s recent pardons violate Justice Department policies designed to ensure fairness and public safety.

How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Blurs the Lines Between Reality, Rumor and Theater ICE arrests, including “collateral arrests,” are up — and often in front of cameras. But experts say the data is ...

Aggressive Policing in Memphis Goes Far Beyond the Scorpion Unit Data shows Memphis police arrested more people – mostly Black men – than other Tennessee cities.

Your Arrest Was Dismissed. But It’s Still In A Police Database. In New York City, officers are illegally using information from arrests that have been sealed, according to a lawsuit. The practice is ...

Un hombre fué condenado y deportado a México, y al menos otras 26 personas han sido detenidas, bajo una ley de inmigración de ...

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

The policies create new restrictions for immigrants and people who support them — including reviving measures previously ...