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The Leader of the New York State Senate says it’s likely that changes will soon be made to the state’s new bail reform laws, which end most forms of cash bail for non violent offenses.

Pennsylvania sentences a lot of people to life without the possibility of parole. Research has shown their odds of reoffending are low after years of incarceration.

"It did change how I look at people because they’re not, like, all criminals. There are more of, like, people who maybe, like, just had bad luck."

The county prosecutor is willing to consider the idea for offenders who committed crimes at a young age and have proven their rehabilitation while behind bars.

Many Democrats and some Republicans say mandatory minimum sentences are ineffective and biased against black people. The GOP committee chair says he ‘doesn’t see color.’

They’ll now get at least 42½ hours per week out of their cell, and will be allowed to eat and attend religious services with other inmates.

Rikers Island doctor says drug treatment in U.S. jails and prisons is often shaped by societal prejudice, not science.

The change, which will involve new furniture and roomier cells, will test whether a less punitive prison environment will yield better-behaved inmates

Attorney General William Barr says he was appalled by the death of Jeffrey Epstein at a New York City jail over the weekend. He blamed the correctional center for failing to"adequately secure" him.

"In New York, people regularly spend months and years and even decades in solitary confinement. People have spent 30 years (there). It's barbaric. It has to stop."