The idea of raising taxes on rich Americans has caught the Republican Party between its populist ambitions and low-tax ...

Over the last several decades, women’s incarceration has grown much more rapidly than men’s, especially in rural areas, ...

California leads the nation by leaps by bounds as the state that most often declined requests to detain illegal migrants arrested for criminal charges, according to newly released data. More than half ...

The Department of Justice on Wednesday filed a motion to dismiss its case against Henrry Jose Villatoro Santos, a Salvadoran national living in Virginia who was accused of being an MS-13 leader.

Former state House majority leader Sheryl Williams Stapleton alleges in a new lawsuit that Albuquerque police used ...

With the average inmate incarcerated 500 miles from home, writer Christine Chitnis reflects on the distances we'll go for the people we love.

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

ATLANTA (AP) — A revived attempt to fix Georgia's inefficient ... He was recently named treasurer of the United States by ...

A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey detained by immigration officials said she was talking to her mother on her phone at the time shortly after ...

Greetings, MindSite News Readers. In today’s Daily, we find that less trauma means less crime — and it can help reduce our country’s sky-high rates of imprisonment. Research also shows that wellness ...