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.

In this excerpt from Locked Down, Locked Out, Maya Schenwar delves into the damage wrought by prison on families.

Private prisons hold only 8 percent of the US prison population. But for-profit companies have other ways of profiting from incarceration in local jails and state prisons.

As Election Day draws near, what are some of the ways that private prison corporations support their candidates? What do they receive in return?