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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday,  June 30, 2022, became the U.S. Supreme Court's newest justice, a historic move that makes her the first Black woman to serve on the high court in its 232-year history (…

The long-term cost of the Baltimore Police Department’s notorious and disgraced Gun Trace Task Force to taxpayers just jumped by more than half a million dollars, the result of a newly-…

The D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that a federal judiciary policy, instituted in 2018 by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts forbidding employees from championing political candidates and parties outside of work and organizing to support their campaigns, violates the First Amendment.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday,  June 30, 2022, became the U.S. Supreme Court's newest justice, a historic move that makes her the first Black woman to serve on the high court in its 232-year history (…

People in prisons may bring claims alleging they were denied access to legal materials while they were pursuing civil rights cases from behind bars, the Third Circuit said Wednesday in a precedential opinion setting forth that right to access the courts (…

The United States Sentencing Commission published a new report today titled Recidivism and Federal Bureau of Prisons Programs Vocational Program…

In Egbert v. Boule, No. 21-147, the Court held that the authority of a court to imply a cause of action under Bivens does not extend to Robert Boule’s Fourth Amendment excessive-force claim or his First Amendment…

On June 8, 2022, the state of Arizona executed Frank Atwood by lethal injection in Florence, Arizona 35 years after he was sentenced to death in 1987 for kidnapping and murder.…

On Thursday, three members of Congress called for an immediate federal investigation into violence and abuse at the U.S. penitentiary in Thomson, Ill., prompted by reporting by The Marshall Project and NPR.

Sens. Dick Durbin…

NPR and The Marshall Project have uncovered violence, abuse and a string of inmate deaths at a new penitentiary in Thomson, Ill (access audio and article).

There have been at least 167…