Prisons

A top DOJ official cited the more than 40 suspected or confirmed homicides of Georgia prison inmates in announcing the civil rights investigation.

The California’s high court has ruled that prison inmates cannot legally possess marijuana behind bars under the state’s 2016 law allowing recreational pot.

Here’s how one nonprofit is helping the formerly incarcerated become entrepreneurs.

A doctor who worked for New York’s corrections system and took issue with a crackdown on prescription drug abuse is suing the agency, saying he was forced to quit and faced harassment for seeking appropriate care for his patients. At issue is a policy shift the system made five years ago to increase oversight at a time of heightened...

Federal regulators are considering allowing state prisons across the country more technological options to combat contraband cellphones.

Texas death row inmate Quintin Jones is scheduled to be executed May 19. But Jones is pleading to Gov. Greg Abbott for clemency, telling the New York Times contributor Suleika Jaouad that he is a different person than he was 2 decades ago. Jones was put on death row after confessing to the murder of his great-aunt. His family has...

California is giving 76,000 inmates the opportunity to leave prison earlier

It hasn’t even been a year since the U.S. government said abuse at the facility was an “open secret” — but how was abuse an open secret? And why wasn’t something done about it?

Three prison guards are charged with misconduct stemming from a violent attack on at least six female inmates, including one who was punched 28 times and pepper-sprayed, New Jersey’s attorney general said Thursday. Attorney General Gurbir Grewal detailed the attack during a video news conference in which he said the guards at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women covered…

The report provided new details on last spring’s catastrophic decision to move inmates from the California Institution for Men east of Los Angeles to San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco. The inmates were put onto buses for the more than 400-mile (680 kilometer) trip and the tight quarters increased the risk of infections spreading.

About 30 officers have been placed on paid leave, according to the corrections officers union, after an inmate said officers handcuffed her and others before beating, stripping and dragging her to a shower, after which she said a male officer got on top of her and groped and sexually assaulted her

Prior to Sept. 24, the prison system had seen 774 total confirmed cases, and since then New York prisons have recorded three times as many new virus cases — with more than 1,000 in December alone

One in every five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, a rate more than four times as high as the general population.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Alabama over conditions in the state prisons

In many states across the country, people with felony convictions are prohibited from voting, or only allowed to vote under certain conditions, even after they’ve served their sentence. Jay Jordan, who served time in prison as a young man and is currently the Director for Californians for Safety and Justice, explains how limiting their rights hurts more than just former...

Since coronavirus entered the U.S., nearly 16,000 have fallen ill of COVID-19 and 134 have died. That number does not include people incarcerated in state prisons across the U.S. The Marshall Project’s criminal justice reporter Keri Blakinger explains why the general public should care about protecting people in prisons.

California’s corrections secretary is retiring after two years in a job that Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday said involved “unparalleled challenges” — most recently coronavirus outbreaks that swept state prisons and led to calls for new leadership amid increasing social pressure to ease mass incarceration. Ralph Diaz will retire Oct. 1 after 30 years with the California Department of Corrections…

There has been a major drop in the number of people behind bars in the U.S. An analysis by The Marshall Project and The Associated Press found that between March and June, more than 100,000 people were released from state and federal prisons

As the coronavirus pandemic decimates many companies, big business that has become synonymous with the world’s largest prison system continues to make money

Five DAs have raised the alarm that releasing inmates to prevent the spread of COVID-19 could mean releasing dangerous people back into society.