Prisons

Michael Avenatti is not El Chapo, people.

Pardon me while I scream in frustration.

Nobody gets better in prison. They just lose more ground.

One-in-four white inmates are released following their first parole hearing, while fewer than one-in-six black inmates are.

If you're wondering what your reproductive capacity is worth in America, it's about 30 days.

The odds look like they may be in his favor.

Any city that wants to decrease the costs of incarceration has to pay more than lip service to jobs and rehabilitation.

One sector is pleased with Trump's victory.

Golly, who'd have thought marrying private equity and the Stanford Prison Experiment could go so awry?

In a show full of implausible plot points, these latest developments have to take the cake.

They fought for justice, and now Steven Avery says they don't even know what justice is.

Did a Wiccan prisoner cast a spell on the Ninth Circuit?

This issue needs to be further examined by state and local governments before it's too late.

Just letting people out of jail is not the answer, it's only the beginning.

Is religious freedom only important when it protects those on the outside or is something more fundamental at work here? The answer is a little of both depending on how you look at it.

Criminal defense attorney Toni Messina says we don't need to make prisons cushier, we just need to make them work better.

For many, many years, interstate inmate calling service (ICS) companies have charged inmates and their families upwards of $14 per minute for phone calls.

With all the focus on the death penalty, another evil of the prison system is getting glossed over.

Sure, Alcatraz was closed because of the high cost of maintaining it -- that's just what they want you to believe.

A growing consensus against mandatory minimum sentencing?