Brian Pitman

Brian Pitman is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maine in Orono.

If Biden Wants to End Death Penalty, He Must Also End Death by Incarceration

More people are serving death-by-incarceration sentences today than the total number of people in prison in the 1970s.

January 24, 2021

In the immediate term, Biden can place a moratorium on federal executions for at least the next decade.

January 12, 2021

The rise in drug overdose and suicide deaths is threatening an entire generation of Americans.

February 6, 2019

The prison industry continues the tradition of toxic exploitation perpetuated by the coal mining industry.

September 2, 2018