The 2019 competition for who gets to be Allegheny County, Pennsylvania’s elected District Attorney for the next four years is…
Tiffany Cabán, a highly progressive, 31-year-old queer Latina public defender, stunned the world last week when she edged out a…
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, published in 2010, probably did more than any other document to make mass incarceration…
Coinciding with Juneteenth, a day honoring the emancipation of enslaved peoples, Congress held the first hearing on reparations for Black…
Alex Billmeyer was panicking when police swarmed a house in Dubuque, Iowa on May 26, yelling that people were shooting…
On June 11, New York City public defenders released data demonstrating that district attorneys are continuing to prosecute "low-level" marijuana…
The Oregon State Senate voted in April to decrease barriers to lifesaving medical treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). Senate…
Here’s a good formula for dystopia: a ”spit-and-acquit” program to create a genetic surveillance system in return for non-prosecution of…
When people who are dependent on opioids are incarcerated and denied access, they go into withdrawal—an often-painful condition with symptoms…
Every person in prison is a policy failure," is a common phrase in abolitionist circles. But of course it's not…