Black Muslims have been an influential force in the prisoners' rights movement and criminal justice reform as early as the World War II era.

"White Bear," an episode of the television show Black Mirror, documents the cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on the protagonist, an amnesiac.

A look at the American public's ambivalent opinion of the death penalty.

Are day fines a possible solution for the U.S. criminal justice system?

How "secondary confessions" lead to false witnesses in testimonies.

While women's prisons historically emphasized the virtues of traditional femininity, the conditions of these prisons were abominable.