This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Later in the program, we'll talk about elections set for Zimbabwe, where 89-year-old President Robert Mugabe is hoping to win yet another term ...

After serving time, Janine Battista overcame stigma and barriers to rebuild her life, highlighting the challenges thousands ...

The Big Bend After Reentry Coalition’s Reentry and Resource Fair brought nearly 30 community agencies together to support men ...

Across the country, fewer people are behind bars today than a decade ago but a new analysis from the Prison Policy Initiative said women are being left out of that progress. Nearly half of U.S. states ...

A committee of the National Research Council examined the best available evidence and found no clear evidence that greater reliance on imprisonment achieved its intended goal of substantially reducing ...

But the report also found that Colorado’s violent crime rate had increased by more than 55% over the past decade. Looking at the period from December 2019 to December 2021, Colorado’s prison ...

As prison populations see major declines nationally, recent data indicated that Mississippi is one of five states heading in ...

In 2024, the FCC voted for new rules to lower how much calls from prisons and jails could cost. But a 2025 rollback raised ...