Many people I've spent Christmas with in prison have described this time of year the same way: feeling like there's…
Washington Governor Jay Inslee (D) wants to invest $125 million each year, funded by cannabis tax revenue, into communities most…
Elected officials are rallying outside of the Rikers Island Detention Complex on January 13 to support detainees who are rejecting…
On December 14, Harm Reduction International (HRI) and Penal Reform International (PRI)—two non-governmental organizations based in the United Kingdom that…
Since 2015, both Big Philanthropy funders and progressive grassroots activists have targeted local district attorney elections, seeing these once-sleepy affairs…
Twenty-two-year-old Angel Rosso has been incarcerated in Washington state since 2018. His release date was set for January 2023. But,…
Last month, a woman won $7 million in a federal court in Hawaii against the state’s Department of Public Safety,…
After an SUV ploughed through a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21, killing five people and injuring 48,…
Criminologists and, increasingly, local court systems love the idea of “swift, certain and fair” punishments for drug use (including alcohol) by…
In 2017, at the American Society of Criminology’s annual conference in Philadelphia, then-President James P. Lynch gave a speech about…