Prisons & Policing

Larry Yarbrough has spent more than 20 years serving a life without parole sentence for possession of a single ounce of cocaine.

The colonial relationship between the US state and Native Americans is important in understanding mass incarceration as a whole.

The very amendment to the US Constitution that was to have performed the miraculous conversion of “chattel into man” actually facilitated his and her re-chattelization through imprisonment.

Is the problem simply that too many people are incarcerated—or is incarceration a problem, in and of itself?

People with means can buy their freedom; those without access to money sit in jail - sometimes for months or even years - while their case works its way …

Are gang raids and so-called “community” policing efforts really decreasing violence in US cities?

He does not regret filming Eric Garner's death, but wishes he hadn't attached his name to it.

It is unclear how much of an impact his arrest will have on a drug war that has killed tens of thousands.

Well Contested Sites draws on the experiences and physical memories of prison.

The move is a huge step for organizations concerned about inequalities in the criminal legal system.