Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, Emily Bazelon talked with Judith Resnik about her new book, Impermissible Punishments: How Prison ...

America talks about recidivism as if it were a mystery. It isn’t. It is a predictable outcome of how we run prisons. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has tracked what happens after release for ...

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said that the prison system is “creating monsters” after he was released from prison last week. “We are creating an environment of failure, so people are prone to ...

Many state prison systems work with ICE. California, for example, has handed over 18,000 prisoners since 2015.

Prison guards in New York say the state's correctional system is in crisis. Both guards and inmates are pleading with the state to fix what they say is a broken system.

Historically, prison systems in the U.S. are defined by their lack of transparency. This is often defended in the name of security. However, 1 in 2 U.S. adults have experienced incarceration in their ...

But some prisons have found a way to lower the cost by partnering with outside vendors. In California, for example, Global Tel*Link – a private company that operates phone systems at many state and ...

A decision whether to mandate air conditioning inside Texas prisons is in the hands of a federal judge, as advocacy ...

In the last 18 months, the state’s prison system has seen officers accused or convicted of murdering two incarcerated individuals and a massive wildcat strike with thousands of officers illegally ...