Incarceration

America has the highest incarceration rate worldwide due to the routine infliction of draconian punishments.

Ted Wafer, convicted of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Renisha McBride, is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 3. He faces a maximum of life in …

If we want to change the United States' senseless addiction to incarceration, the best possible place to start is transforming how our justice system treats our children.

Contrary to what “Orange is the New Black” would have you think, compassionate release is not simply the act of taking an aging, senile person and dumping her onto …

Nationally, American prisons release the equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Boston every year.

The fight for reproductive justice and human rights is inextricably linked to the need to end mass incarceration in all its forms and manifestations.

Despite all the progress made in the past fifty years since the Civil Rights Act, we still have a very long way to go.

To end the violence there must be radical reform of the school and prison moderated by Marc Steiner.

Victims and perpetrators sitting down face to face. It can help heal their wounds, and our society. Incarcerating our way out of crime clearly hasn't worked, and it's costing …

California's marijuana industry is directly tied to the racial injustices of the system of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander, a young farmer and two prominent activists talk about how and …