A newly introduced California Assembly bill would sentence people arrested on drug charges to an alternative form of incarceration: mandatory…
As a winter storm battered Texas, 4.5 million people lost power. A humanitarian crisis mounted across the state, as residents…
In July 2020, the federal government shocked activists and advocate by resurrecting the death penalty. After 17 years without federal…
Dozens of people incarcerated at St. Louis City Justice Center (CJC) protested inhumane and life-threatening conditions on February 6 by…
An incident of police brutality in Rochester, New York, calls into question reforms the city has put in place to…
In popular culture, people who sell drugs are stereotyped as remorseless monsters, like the loathsome Mikey Forrester from the book…
Transgender and criminal justice reform activists won a major victory as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation passed that…
After the December 2020 exit of a progressive candidate with a bold drug policy reform platform from the Manhattan district…
Illinois will make history by becoming the first US state to end cash bail. Instead, judges must impose the least…
On January 26, President Joe Biden signed a series of executive actions focused on racial equity. Among four orders issued,…