Mass Incarceration

The movement against mass incarceration can learn much from the struggle for climate justice. Environmental justice activists' engagement with governments, global organizations and corporations holds many lessons in fighting …

We need to put a halt to the systems that hide and perpetuate inequality. We need to decouple from an economy of infinite choice, an economy of disposability.

On September 5th, 1989 President George H.W. Bush gave a speech from the Oval Office that defined a generation.

The Obama administration and the US Sentencing Commission are allowing drug war prisoners to retroactively apply for commutation and reduced sentences. But will these changes actually allow 71-year-old Phyllis …

If we want to change the United States' senseless addiction to incarceration, the best possible place to start is transforming how our justice system treats our children.

Nationally, American prisons release the equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Boston every year.

Electronic monitoring costs less than incarceration, but in the rush for a quick fix, we are overlooking key questions of human rights, private corrections company profiteering and potential threats …

Black children are systematically dehumanized in this country, especially within the criminal justice system - to the extent that they're viewed as inherently guilty and worthy of punishment.

Without federal leadership, you can count on marijuana legalization to keep spreading one state at a time.

While abuses inside an Alabama women's prison have made headlines, less attention has been paid to the activism and organizing by women inside.