For the last decade or so, those opposed to capital punishment have been repeating the same mantra as a way to mark the progress of their campaign to end state killing in this country: The number of ...

Kara Gotsch, Executive Director of The Sentencing Project, discusses the ongoing challenges and progress of ending mass incarceration in the US, advocating for capping sentences at 20 years and ...

"I regret living a godless life because I killed a life created by God. I’m sorry," a Massachusetts man said, 20 years after ...

ICE's detention centers and current lack of due process echo the WW II concentration camps that housed Japanese Americans, ...

Chinese illegal immigrant accused of dealing cocaine has allegedly left the U.S. before his Massachusetts trial ...

One of the ICE agents behind the high-profile New Bedford raid spoke to WBUR's All Things Considered about where the immigration system stands almost two decades later.

President Trump signed an executive order that makes it easier for states to remove homeless encampments and force unhoused ...

Patrick Dolan, of North Attleboro and Haverhill, allegedly used the funds to cover tuition, student loan payments, and at ...

The public needs clear, accurate language. The stakes are too high for us to play along with the Trump administration’s ...

In the last several years, Tales has become one of the few summer draws for visitors to the city, generating around $24 ...

President Donald Trump had deported nearly 200 Venezuelan men to an El Salvador prison, raising fears for their safety.

“Alligator Alcatraz,” the public moniker for an abandoned airport in the Florida Everglades that has been turned into an ...