Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face inhumane conditions.

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

The breakneck speed at which the Trump administration has targeted trans people shows no signs of slowing down, even as his earliest anti-trans executive orders face tremendous legal battles and ...

Since 2013, changes to state laws, local ordinances, and court rulings have led to bail reforms in 24 states. Each jurisdiction has had its own unique road to reform, but their cumulative experiences ...

Foul, fishlike, and sulfurous Amador Water Agency says it supplies clean, treated water to Mule Creek State Prison, where it is held in tanks. “AWA’s responsibility ends at the water meter to Mule ...

Trans people are more than four times as likely to experience violent crime. Behind bars, incarcerated trans Americans experience sexual violence at more than 12 times the rate of other imprisoned ...

The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The ...

Nationally, more than 6,000 people are held in sex offense civil commitment, according to a 2024 report from the Prison Policy Initiative. While the states that run such programs say they’re focused ...

One hundred and thirty-five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged the devastating effects of solitary confinement. In an 1890 ruling declaring that Colorado had improperly subjected a man ...