Mass Incarceration

The call to end youth solitary confinement has been growing louder. Will it extend to those in prison over 18?

Would President Hillary Clinton dismantle her husband's legacy of mass incarceration? She's given people little hope.

New books on mass incarceration offer fresh information and cast a critical eye on our existing understandings.

Slavery's lasting ideology of white supremacy figures into the history of racial injustice in incarceration, says author Bryan Stevenson.

The passage of a recent marijuana initiative in Wichita, Kansas, shows how real change begins at the grassroots.

Bryan Stevenson makes a detailed, compelling and personal case that prisons in the United States are filled with victims of injustice.

Despite advances in gay rights, sex crime convictions are on the rise.

Pressure on investment firms to maximize profits in hidden holdings can have life-and-death consequences for those behind bars.

New compassionate release guidelines don't apply to many of the people serving drug sentences in federal prisons.

The journal Socialism and Democracy's collection of essays demonstrates why we need to go beyond various justice system reform proposals - valuable as they are - to a much …