Abelardo Avellaneda-Delgado died while en route to ICE’s Stewart Detention Center, leaving his family in shock.

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Trans people are more than four times as likely to experience violent crime. Behind bars, incarcerated trans Americans experience sexual violence at more than 12 times the rate of other imprisoned ...

The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The ...

Nationally, more than 6,000 people are held in sex offense civil commitment, according to a 2024 report from the Prison Policy Initiative. While the states that run such programs say they’re focused ...

A majority of the protesters are in their teens and twenties. A handful are in their thirties or forties. Of the 66 protesters, 27 are still fighting their cases in court, 12 have charges pending, and ...

One hundred and thirty-five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged the devastating effects of solitary confinement. In an 1890 ruling declaring that Colorado had improperly subjected a man ...

A Myth . A “crime surge” always means money for police, even if the spike in organized retail theft is a myth.. For a handful of years, the most widely cited data on organized retail theft came from ...

This is a breaking news story and may be updated. Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced on Tuesday that the Department of Justice has filed charges against people who allegedly damaged Tesla ...

The National Center for Transgender Equality lists myriad ways in which prisons and jails ought to protect trans prisoners’ safety, including changing screening, housing, showering, restroom, and ...

Last year, six prisoners at Red Onion State Prison, a supermax facility on the state’s rural west side, intentionally burned themselves, prompting scrutiny of the prison from lawmakers and the public.

A second Trump term is not only more dangerous for undocumented people and asylum seekers than life under a Democratic president. It’s poised to be catastrophic. Carlos met his wife in a dance club in ...