Mass Incarceration

Five companies extracting huge profits from the growth of prisons, often out of public sight.

Hate crime laws lent legitimacy to a prison and policing system that has wrought immense damage on communities of color.

Eddie Conway continues his discussion with Maya Schenwar, author of “Locked Down, Locked Out,” this time focusing on alternatives to mass incarceration.

Eddie Conway interviews Maya Schenwar, author of “Locked Down, Locked Out,” who argues mass incarceration in the US causes more harm than good for prisoners and communities.

Radical queer organizing was alive and well in the US in 2014; you just may not have heard about it in mainstream media.

Alonza Thomas talks about being incarcerated at the age of 16.

The box is more likely to dissuade, if not outright bar, people of color than their white counterparts.

Mass incarceration has landed on the political agenda at both the national and local levels.

How is it that so-called reform measures, marketed as reducing prison populations, will ultimately widen the net?

Incarcerating our way out of crime clearly hasn't worked, and it's costing us billions.