Stories by Liliana Segura

Trina Garnett accidentally set a fatal fire when she was 14. That was in 1976. Could a Supreme Court ruling on juvenile life without parole finally bring her home?

The country's largest maximum security prison features a private golf course, an evangelical Christian warden, and has been compared to a slave plantation.

"The manner in which Texas carries out the execution of human beings is riskier, less transparent, and has less oversight than the euthanasia of cats, dogs, birds, lizards."

Even prisoner advocacy groups focus mainly on the conditions of confinement, without necessarily questioning sentences that drive prisoners to despair.

The Supreme Court has given a second chance to juveniles serving life without parole for non-homicide crimes.

Here's a fuller portrait of Kagan's background and what makes her tick.

As calls continue to boycott Arizona over its racist immigration law, many are focusing on Major League Baseball, where nearly a third of the players are Latino.

It's absurd to buttonhole Comedy Central when U.S. troops are occupying two Muslim nations and bombing a third.

How racist attitudes barely hide beneath the surface of 'tough on crime' policies.

Josh Stieber talks about how the disturbing video shouldn't be seen as a few soldiers behaving badly but as a sign of a broken system where the same 'outrages' will continue.

The most recent news from Afghanistan shows how deadly and dysfunctional the U.S. mission there is.

Piper Kerman's memoir reveals how prison changed her life, and why warehousing people who commit crimes is such a waste of human potential.

Despite the many good elements in the health care bill, it deals a heavy blow to the pro-choice movement.

Promising solutions for international women's rights problems, the Daily Beast's 'Women in the World' conference ended up supporting the status quo for US foreign policy.

Conservatives are criticizing Liz Cheney's ugly ad portraying Obama's DOJ as an extension of al Qaeda. Is it partly because the DOJ has given them little to complain about?

Tapping into widespread thirst for a potential alternative to the Tea Party movement, the Coffee Party is launching real life, off-line, on-the-ground activity across the country.

At the same time the Obama administration is talking about a dramatic "spending freeze," it's requesting more money to lock people up.

Starbucks has become a popular gathering spot for some Second Amendment crusaders, but the company is pretending it doesn't have the power to keep them out.

With Super Bowl Sunday only a few days away, the fight over Focus on the Family's overtly anti-choice ad featuring University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is raging.