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 ...

Mass incarceration is a complex issue that cannot be solved by simply tweaking the system, but rather by addressing the root ...

Liberty and incarceration are opposites but "justice for all" should apply to people in or out of jail, says the new director ...

"The United States is now a world leader when it comes to incarceration," Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and co-author ...

Lawmakers already have a study of sentencing issues in the works for the interim, but Wrigley wants a task force controlled ...

A representative of DOGE met with leaders of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization that advocates for lower ...

I was reading some stats on youth crime in Winnipeg recently and was gobsmacked by the numbers. Our city, it turns out, is the youth crime capital of Canada, with the highest incarceration rate of ...

Bukele is one of the more successful examples of the global wave of elected authoritarians eroding democratic norms. Few other practitioners of this authoritarian playbook are as popular at home. Not ...

Since Bukele launched his crackdown in March 2022, El Salvador has the world’s highest incarceration rate. About 3% of adult men are behind bars. Anyone who looks suspicious, especially people ...

A new study found that reported diagnoses for tuberculosis were consistently lower than expected throughout the pandemic, even though incarceration rates remained largely consistent and TB detection ...