Incarcerated writer John J. Lennon knows Andre Shariff Smith as a friend from the joint. Thanks to a Netflix show, the world ...

America’s Incarceration Rate Is About to Fall Off a Cliff Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

Mass incarceration has been so persistent and pervasive that reform groups dedicated to reducing the prison population by half have often been derided as made up of fantasists.

Can Beacon Hill stomp out smoking for future generations? Bills in the state House and Senate seek to do just that.

Mass incarceration has been so persistent and pervasive that ... But starting in the late 1960s, a multidecade crime wave swelled in America, and an unprecedented number of adolescents and young ...

The American prison system is a carceral continuum that perpetuates cycles of harm, and reform is not the solution, but ...

CNN released its list of America’s Best Towns to Visit, factoring in 10 communities from the plains to the desert and back to the shore.

Ten inmates escaped from a New Orleans jail almost two months ago, and authorities have captured all but the man with the ...

Members of the nation’s sixth-largest Catholic community are excused from attending mass over “genuine fear” of immigration enforcement actions that have rocked communities across Los ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Care of Creation on the grounds of the Borgo Laudato Si’ ecology center in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 9, 2025.

FBI arrests 16 members of Anti-Tren gang in Houston as part of Operation Take Back America, with suspects facing charges for drug conspiracy, weapons offenses, and a mass shooting.