Incarceration

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 …

Because white youth and families of all class backgrounds benefit from racist disparities in sentencing and incarceration, these burdens are disproportionately shouldered by families of color.

California has contracted with a private prison corporation to open a 260-bed women's prison. But will a new prison address the overcrowding and medical neglect facing the state's female …

As more and more individuals and groups are now considered excess, consigned to zones of abandonment, surveillance and incarceration, dystopian politics has become mainstream politics and the practice of …

An officer assaulted a woman in a waiting area, claiming that she was violating custody rules because she took a dose of painkiller for an infected tooth.

Texas prison inmates report being raped at some of the highest rates in the country, and the problem only seems to be worsening.

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?

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

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.