Mass Incarceration

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 …

The state is very much involved in perpetuating violence against women.

Jails admit nearly 12 million people every year. Yet they are largely off the radar of critics of mass incarceration.

It is necessary to be careful about any sort of presumption of correlation between criminality and incarceration.