Mass Incarceration

Bland was jailed after an encounter with a Texas cop over a minor traffic violation. Three days later she was found hanged in her cell.

The jail has become the largest mental health care provider in the US.

"The international drug control system promised a world free of drugs, but has delivered the exact opposite."

A new multimedia tablet program means that inmates will be unable to keep the mp3s and players they purchased under a previous for-profit program.

The actor investigates the juvenile justice system on the season premiere of 'VICE' on HBO.

The Philly rapper's continued legal troubles are a dangerous fallacy and a reminder of a historically unjust legal system in America.

We weren't actually allowed to garden, but that didn't stop us from doing it.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his desire to revitalize the U.S. war on drugs, and new reports indicate he intends to begin by reinstituting harsher sentences for low-level offenders.

While still short on specific policy changes, Sessions has made it clear that he plans to crack down on drugs and immigration while resuscitating the harsh sentencing laws that have given the United States the world’s highest incarceration rate.

He really, really likes putting people in prison.