The number of New Yorkers in the city's infamous jail system hit what Mayor Bill de Blasio called an "historic"…
In September last year, the Prison Law Office, a nonprofit working for incarcerated people in California, sent a letter to…
State prisons' efforts to decarcerate during the COVID-19 crisis seem to have been eclipsed by those of county jails—despite more…
Like many others affected by the coronavirus crisis, Simon,* a 43-year-old Black man, was confined to a room with a…
Even before COVID-19 upended American social and economic life, mass incarceration was devastating communities nationwide. But with data suggesting that…
What are the drivers of mass incarceration? It’s a complicated question, with racism and classism central to the answers. The…
“I am afraid of getting coronavirus. It’s psyching me out a lot, I start to get panicky and think I…
Fort Wayne, a gateway to the American West that started out as a significant trade port along the Erie Canal,…
While the coronavirus continues to disrupt American life, activists around the country are not forgetting about the millions of people…
"Don’t let yourself or your property get mixed up in the world of illegal drugs," US Attorney Ron Parsons of…