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New court filings say that New York City is violating an eight-year-old court order mandating access to education people under 22 in Rikers.

My parishioner was not sentenced to death, but a death sentence is what he received.

The governor's vaccine distribution plan excludes most incarcerated people even though they are uniquely vulnerable to the coronavirus.

In the days before Christmas, 44-year-old April Harris sat in her prison cell at the California Institution for Women for more than 23 hours a day. In the 20 minutes she was allowed to leave it, she and the other prisoners would flood into the common areas – choosing either to take a shower or to make a short phone call. Restrictions have fluctuated during the various lockdowns implemented throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but in the 11 months since the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) first banned visitations across state prisons, Harris says she has seen the ...

Virus cases are surging among incarcerated people at prisons and jails. But state officials have not announced when they will be vaccinated.