State Republican leaders in North Carolina voted to censure Senator Richard Burr over his vote to convict Donald Trump during last week’s impeachment trial, making Burr the latest to be rebuked for ...

A majority of senators voted Saturday to convict former President Donald Trump on an impeachment charge of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. But the Democrats' side needed 17 Republicans ...

The Republicans who broke with their party to find Donald J. Trump guilty were an eclectic group, bound by their shared lack of concern about retribution from the former president or his followers. By ...

After the Civil War, the South’s economy, society, and government were in shambles. Southern state governments struggled to raise money to repair damaged infrastructure and to support new expenses ...

This morning ought to mark President Donald Trump’s last in the White House. It’s not so much an argument as it is regretfully axiomatic; just as it’s axiomatic that he will remain. The president has ...

The vote was the most bipartisan for a presidential impeachment conviction in United States history. By Luke Broadwater Seven Republican senators voted on Saturday to convict former President Donald J ...

Pauline Grosjean receives funding from the Australian Research Council (Discovery Project DP 160100459). However, divorce may not be the price for success, but a remnant of our convict past. Attitudes ...

Incarcerated people work in a rock quarry, possibly Keith Quarry near Palmetto, Georgia, around 1948. (Photograph courtesy of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution via Georgia State University.) This is ...

Gaping wide like gateways to the center of the earth, the coke furnaces along Lake Road in South Cumberland State Park stand as remnants of what was once Tennessee’s most productive coal mining ...

The property includes a selection of eleven penal sites, among the thousands established by the British Empire on Australian soil in the 18 th and 19 th centuries. The sites are spread across ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that convicts serving fixed-term life sentences, like 20 years, are automatically entitled to release upon completion of their term, without needing government remission.