While the City of Minneapolis waits for a federal judge to sign off on a consent decree proposed by the U.S. Justice ...

The prison population has been creeping back upward. New laws in some states instituting harsher punishments threaten to further fill prisons, many of which are already understaffed and overcrowded.

Tyre Nichols’ friends, family and community march down Ross Road on their way to a vigil in his honor at the corner of ...

Black Americans encountered a series of political events that tested their resilience and commitment to justice.

Prisons, jails and detention centers are placed in locations where environmental hazards such as toxic landfills, floods and ...