New Bedford police have perverted the confidential informant system in countless ways, the Spotlight Team has found. Officers ...

After years of juvenile detention, a repeat offender now faces adult prison time—raising questions about the system’s failures and ignored warning signs.

There is controversy over what reportedly happened recently in the women's section of the Capodimonte prison, where a young ...

Content warning: Discussions of murder, rape, and assault. Recently, we featured stories from formerly incarcerated people ...

Last fall, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) confirmed that at least six inmates burned themselves — though ...

Recommendations to trim the cost include a change in staffing and potentially closing a wing of the prison. The juvenile ...

Two teenage girls were arrested for plotting a pipe bomb attack at Memorial High School, highlighting a 1,200% rise in ...

As the system weighs incarceration vs. rehabilitation, experts say patchwork of strategies leave gaps in the bars for ...

It was this relief that Syed’s latest legal counsel chose to utilize in her efforts to get Syed released. However, instead of ...

In prison, each inmate got their own cell and could purchase things for ... with a visible cell in the background 7."I turned 17 in juvenile hall. I was able to prove I was innocent, but not ...