Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marcella Soto had four children by the time she was 22 and was on and off welfare during the years they were growing up. By 2018, ...

The U.S. operates one of the largest and most punitive criminal justice systems in the world. On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state and local ...

According to Pew Trust, across the United States, there are nearly five million people on either parole or probation. That’s close to one out of every fifty adults! Not only are those people part of ...

When President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson's life sentence in 2018, many observers assumed that the grandmother was fully free. What they didn't realize at the time was that Johnson, who ...

With critical election races happening for Democrats, the White House is trying to get across the message that defunding the police is not a Democratic stance, and also that probation and parole ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The government has enacted prison reforms, but there's still more to be done for the incarcerated population after release. According to Pew ...

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During the November election, voters across the country approved a slew of initiatives to reform police departments, curb the failed war on drugs and reduce incarceration. But millions of people are ...