By national reputation, Hawaiʻi is known as a welcoming place, a cultural crossroads in the Pacific where many ethnicities, ...

El Salvador currently holds the highest incarceration rate in the world, with over 1,000 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants as of 2024, according to World Prison Brief. This staggering figure ...

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Arizona announced it would join Reentry 2030 as a GOP lawmaker opened a probe into three alleged murders at the sprawling ...

Sarasota County's jail has been overpopulated for 20 years. Now, local criminal justice officials are raising the alarm that ...

As two cellmates were fighting in a Riverside County jail, an inexperienced guard remotely opened the cell door, a violation ...

“In prison, you still [get] older year after year. You still turn eighteen…still turn thirty…but it’s the setting that makes ...

In an email to staff, the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs said the canceled grants don’t align ...

As Langston Hughes, the influential Harlem Renaissance poet, playwright and social activist, once wrote:“What happens to a ...

Staff at an overnight shelter in Thunder Bay, Ont., are calling on Elections Canada to make it easier for people experiencing homelessness to cast ballots in the federal election. Here's what workers ...

A new Trump executive order targets D.C.'s homelessness and public safety, sparking fears of increased displacement and ...

A South African Medical Journal (SAMJ) study explains that South Africa has the fourth highest global incarceration rate, with more than 165,000 prisoners in 237 prisons. There is rapid turnover of ...