Correctional officers at five Maryland prisons will wear body cameras over the next several weeks as part of a state pilot ...

As a psychologist, I am profoundly disturbed by the psychological implications of the request made by Officer Ibiang Otu and ...

Gov. Tony Evers is pushing for prison reform in his biennial budget. The plan calls for closing the prison in Green Bay and ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations advocates want to try again in 2026.

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

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All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: ...

Last year, or perhaps even before then, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese came up with a very sensible strategy about calling ...

Our enemies, ancient and contemporary, parade us around not out of kindness or magnanimity but to humiliate and destroy our people’s morale.

Danielle Sassoon, who resigned from her position as Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, oversaw all investigations into ...

It’s Valentine’s Day and much is happening in Washington and the political world, some of it quite unsettling. But I’m taking a break from current ...

All Abduweli Ayup wanted to do was start a school. He's a Uyghur linguist who specializes in Turkic languages. After years of studying abroad, he returned to his native China in 2011 and started ...