This week I ask you to take a moment to close your eyes and envision the following situation. You are sitting at home, alone, when an overweight, middle-aged man with two first names, a pasty ...

Netflix’s new docuseries “Girls Incarcerated” offers a window into the day-to-day experiences of female teens doing time at a Department of Corrections facility in Indiana. The show reveals the ...

Barry Krisberg is president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. The publication of “Cruel Justice” coincides with the 10-year anniversary of a major change in California penal law known ...

Cruel Justice: Gratuitous Cruelty in Justice Thomas's Jurisprudence "There is another quality in Justice Thomas's jurisprudence that needs to be noted, and which has not been sufficiently examined: ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court refused to review the constitutionality of Thomas Arthur’s impending death by lethal injection, effectively clearing the way for Alabama to execute him. Only two justices ...

So, who is Hedquist? Why, he is none other than a convicted murderer. In 1994, Hedquist stole things from his aunt’s home. When Nikki Thrasher, a teenage girl, asked him about some of the items, ...

Tough youth justice laws will probably further strain capacity at detention centres and limit protection from "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment, a state government says. The controversial ...