Dozens of juvenile detention centers in 25 states reported holding children weeks or months as they awaited space at long-term psychiatric treatment facilities, according to a new survey.

Japanese American groups held a vigil at the Broadview ICE facility on the Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the 1942 ...

One of her major studies examined solitary confinement in North Carolina prisons. She found that nearly one-in-four ...

A Yolo County Superior Court judge granted mental health diversion in a felony firearm case, despite the prosecution's objection, due to the accused's mental health diagnosis and the lack of ...

Fortunately, policy makers have at their disposal a clear means of preventing epidemic outbreaks at jails, prisons, and ICE facilities. Several studies have shown that decarceration is extremely ...

Japanese Americans' unjust incarceration during WWII echoes today as the Mile High JACL hosts a remembrance event, spotlighting ongoing racial injustices in the U.S.

Many have written off the 118th Congress as hopelessly divided, with no prospect of legislation getting to the president’s desk. But criminal justice reform has a long record of bipartisan cooperation ...

Locking people up for petty drug and property offenses does not help us get there—it only fuels mass incarceration. If ...

This month, in a rare moment of bipartisanship, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) advanced major legislation that would allow courts ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho has the highest rate of female incarceration in the United States, according to a new report from the Idaho Justice Project. The report, “Women’s Incarceration in Idaho: The ...

Inmates attend Archbishop José Gomez' Christmas Mass in Men's Central Jail on Christmas morning, December 25, 2016. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images.