Prisons & Policing

Following the death of two prisoners at New York City's Rikers Island facility, there is mounting pressure on jails and prisons to reform their use of solitary confinement.

Outrage is growing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after the latest incident in a spate of police shootings.

What a strange moment we're in. Prison ‘reform’ is in vogue.

A month before the 10-year anniversary of the Abu Ghraib torture photos, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel urged a federal appeals court to re-open a …

Incarcerating mothers punishes their children, as well. It's time to reconsider the whole practice, says Samantha Sarra.

In the state of California it costs roughly seven times more to house one prisoner for a year than it does to send just one child to a college …

Davis’s work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced social movements across generations.

While any effort to stop mass incarceration must be expansive in scope and size, it ultimately has to be accessible to those directly affected.

“Dear Marissa” is an apology to Marissa Alexander, a black woman who was sentenced in Florida to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot at her abusive …

The government owns the narrative. They own the courtroom. They own the story being told: America is fair, honest, good. Police don't lie. Prosecutors are only interested in justice. …