That is not a series of bad individual choices. It is a system producing a revolving door.

More than 21,000 people died in local jails and state prisons in four years, according to records the government has hidden from public view since 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice released the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Incarcerated people exercise in the maximum security yard of the Lansing Correctional Facility in April 2023 in Lansing, Kan. This ...

For more than 40 years, the United States—a nation that putatively cherishes freedom—has had one of the largest prison systems in the world. Mass incarceration has been so persistent and pervasive ...

Maybe it's just a sign of our angry and divided times, but I'm finding that critics often don't read past the headline or the first couple of paragraphs before sending me a nasty-gram. So, in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 21,000 people died in local jails and state prisons in four years, according to records the government has hidden from ...