Beth Schwartzapfel

Rats, Insects and Mold: How Bad Food Leaves Prisoners Hungry and Sick

Some employees at a Texas federal prison that holds high-profile women including Ghislaine Maxwell said they faced retaliation for reporting abuse.

‘People will die,’ an advocate warns, as standard treatments for gender dysphoria are replaced with therapy and antidepressants after Trump’s order.

With fewer and fewer employees to run the prisons, psychologists were repeatedly forced to act as guards.

In Chicago, Memphis and elsewhere, residents allege a surge of federal agents and military troops is making it harder to police and prosecute crime.

“It’s a good time to be an American-born criminal,” said one expert, as ICE’s dragnet now includes thousands of agents from other federal law enforcement.

Farmer v. Brennan is one of the most cited Supreme Court cases of all time. Few people know just how revolutionary Dee Farmer was.

In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ historic speech, 20 currently and formerly incarcerated Americans explain what Independence Day means to them.

The Bureau of Prisons’ new deputy director’s past incarceration has drawn outrage from some officers — and support from people still inside.

The district judge ordered the prison system to continue providing hormone therapy to transgender people as needed, while a lawsuit proceeds.