A radical housing program in the San Francisco Bay is recognizing how women who killed their abusers deserve dignity—and a second chance.

Why did Christie Smythe upend her life and stability for Martin Shkreli, one of the least-liked men in the world?

Those who are incarcerated are suing for their right to gender confirmation surgery—if deemed necessary. Meet the psychiatrist who almost always says it’s not.

Hamid Abd-Al-Jabbar and David Thompson bonded in juvenile detention in the 1980s, then spent most of the next 40 years in prison. When they emerged from one of the country’s most unforgiving state penal systems, their friendship proved crucial.

At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded 25 others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.

In October 2006, a four-year-old from Corpus Christi named Andrew Burd died mysteriously of salt poisoning. His foster mother, Hannah Overton, was charged with capital murder, vilified from all quarters, and sent to prison for life. But was this churchgoing young woman a vicious child killer? Or had the tragedy claimed its second victim?

As one blockmate after another fell ill, we tried to stay safe and care for one another. It wasn’t always enough.

The Brooklyn rapper, fresh out of prison on parole, talks about life on the inside and where he goes next.

Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.

A former inmate on justice, violence, and jail time.

She wanted to escape her marriage. He wanted to escape his life sentence.

COVID-19 has led many Americans to rethink prison. But a habitual offender law has condemned hundreds of people who never physically hurt anyone to grow old and die behind bars.

On the epidemic of deaths in jails.

“Peril is generational for black people in America—and incarceration is our current mechanism for ensuring that the peril continues.”

On the public-health risks of the American prison system.

Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolors. But on a cold day in the prison yard, he carried a knife and thought about revenge.

How the state’s “restitution program” forces poor people to work off small debts.

From pecan pralines to ‘dots.’

A Texas con artist made millions promising prisoners’ families the thing they wanted most: to bring their children home.

In his old life, Matthew Cox told stories to scam his way into millions of dollars. Now he’s trying to make it by selling tales that are true.

An essay from inside Sing Sing.

In a supermax facility on US soil, inmates are force fed—and barred from sharing their stories.

In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.

A secretive hedge fund used the British court system to punish an IP thief‚ even though he was already in jail.