A psychologist who examined more than a dozen death row inmates for intellectual disabilities has been barred from performing future evaluations. George Denkowski, who has been a witness for prosecutors and defendants in death penalty cases, reached a settlement with the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists after other doctors and defense lawyers questioned his methods.
Attorney General Eric Holder proposes to seriously weaken standards intended to hold prison officials accountable for eliminating rape in their prisons.
It isn’t often that we hear much about prison rape – except in jokes on late night TV. However, it is not a laughing matter.
A star athlete attending college on an athletic scholarship, Robert Jones was on top of the world. But a lifetime of “just getting by” and a perilous decision landed him behind bars—the one place that would truly turn his life around.
Like many survivors of sexual assault, Kelly Putty had a pain inside that wouldn’t go away. But her healing started when she encountered Jesus Christ.
Recently Prison Fellowship® hosted a screening of the new movie, Loving the Bad Man, a story about a young woman who learns to extend the love of Christ to her rapist.
In addition to the many challenges incarcerated pregnant women face, many prisons and jails shackle pregnant prisoners—with handcuffs, leg irons, or both—during transport and, most shockingly, during childbirth, adding undue trauma and difficulty.
An incarcerated pregnant woman faces many obstacles that her fellow inmates may not understand.
Cleve Foster, a former Army recruiter convicted of murder, was scheduled to be executed earlier this week in Huntsville, Tex., when the Supreme Court rightly granted a stay pending a review of his case.
There are so many reasons why the death penalty should be repealed everywhere.
Advocates of overhauling the U.S. criminal justice system see a bright spot in the dire financial straits that states are facing: Politicians eager to trim budgets are willing to cut spending on prisons and corrections programs.
Several liberal and conservative groups have joined together to take advantage of the moment.
There is new evidence that state governments are finally understanding what a tragic mistake they made during the 1990s when they began trying ever larger numbers of children as adults instead of sending them to the juvenile justice system.
Prosecutors argued that harsh sentencing would protect the public from violent, youthful predators.
When President Obama listed empathy as a valuable trait for a justice during his 2009 search to replace David Souter, the idea drew scorn from some conservatives who saw it as an excuse for being soft. But a Supreme Court ruling this week provides evidence of how useful empathy is, and of how not using it can lead to glaring injustice.
A decision to change one of the drugs Texas uses for lethal injections in its busy execution chamber has sparked anew the controversy over the state’s death penalty.
Two inmates filed suit this week against the state corrections department over its closed-door decision-making process.
Jim Willett has never hit anyone in his life, never even wanted to hurt anyone. But at the height of his career, this mild-mannered, white-haired man with reading glasses perched on the end of his nose was responsible for carrying out 89 executions.
Perhaps as many as three-quarters of New York State’s 57,000 prison inmates need drug counseling or treatment to have a chance at productive, crime-free lives once they are released. A three-year study of drug and alcohol abuse programs in the New York State Department of Corrections suggests that prisons are failing to provide adequate treatment programs for the tens of thousands of inmates who need them.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from a death row inmate who faces execution after a mailroom mix-up at one of the nation’s most prominent law firms.
Lawyers at the firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, had agreed to represent Cory R.
Douglas Warney, a person of limited mental capabilities who has been diagnosed with AIDS and AIDS dementia, served nine years in New York State prisons for a murder he did not commit. Now the state is seeking to compound the injustice by denying Mr.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that on average 124 adult and juvenile inmates are sexually assaulted in US prisons every day. The Attorney General has announced plans to significantly weaken the standards that will hold prison officials accountable for eliminating rape in their prisons.