Prison

This Mother's Day, Shanesha Taylor, a 25-year old homeless and unemployed mother, will be fighting for her freedom and her children for committing the unspeakable crime: trying to feed …

Considering the decimation of families and communities brought about by mass incarceration, what is the societal value of locking up people for such amounts of time?

Innocent people will be executed in the US if the country's capital punishment system is not reformed, warns a new report from the Constitution Project.

Mother's Day needs to become a call to arms against the continued oppression and trauma of incarceration experienced by both mothers and children.

Power will not hesitate to use your identity against you if it can. The police violence to which Cecily McMillan was subjected was explicitly gendered, and in this she …

Across the United States and the world, there is an emerging movement calling for the end of solitary confinement.

Ten years after the first publication of photos from inside the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Al Jazeera journalist Salah Hassan speaks about his torture by US forces inside …

In his new book, Matt Taibbi explains how two of the most troubling trends in the United States are interwoven: economic inequality and mass incarceration. Wealth can merit an …

An elite scientific panel noted with alarm that the U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world.

In her new book, Deborah Jiang-Stein explores racial and family identity, alienation and reconciliation with adopted parents.