When the judge set his bail at $3,000, Jonathan Broad*, 57, thought “All I want is to die free—not in jail.”. Broad was arrested in March 2016 and convicted of “criminal possession of a controlled ...

Deaths at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta have quadrupled in 2022. But Fulton County may cut funding to the pre-arrest diversion program.

In Georgia, a person can be charged as a “party to a crime” for simple acts like answering a phone or loaning gas money. I—and many women incarcerated alongside me—are trapped in prison for crimes ...

Rob Bonta’s career has hinged on the idea that the law can be used to engender social justice. His elevation to California’s “top cop” position, where he will become responsible for the vast ...

In February, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón became the latest local Democratic politician to fold to conservative critics when he walked back two major campaign promises that had ...

TDCJ has long faced staffing shortages that have plagued operations; as far back as 2005, the staff turnover rate was above 20 percent.Corrections officers had a turnover rate of 40.3 percent – ...

When Cynthia Sommer’s husband, Todd, died in 2002, the medical examiner said a cardiac arrhythmia was responsible. But prosecutors charged Sommer with murder on the theory she had poisoned her husband ...

In the universe of legal cases impacted by anti-LGBTQ+ bias, there are few more notorious than Calvin Burdine’s. Though Burdine is most commonly known as the defendant in Texas’s “sleeping lawyer” ...

A Myth . A “crime surge” always means money for police, even if the spike in organized retail theft is a myth.. For a handful of years, the most widely cited data on organized retail theft came from ...

Introduction. Steven Zick was 16 when he was subjected to “initiation” in the South Bend, Indiana juvenile jail. For Steven, “initiation” meant being beaten so badly by the other kids that he had a ...

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 ...

On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation's largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its failure would represent a remarkable victory for advocates ...