Mass Incarceration

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.

The quest to overturn structural racial and economic injustice in the United States is arguably most powerful in the growing movement to end the racialized system of mass incarceration. …

A Brooklyn man who spent more than a dozen years in prison for a crime he likely did not commit will receive $3 million from New York State. He …

There's a new underground railroad for people returning home from prison.

Despite all the progress made in the past fifty years since the Civil Rights Act, we still have a very long way to go.

Chris Moore-Backman examines connections between the struggle for peace in Mexico and the struggle to end the racist system of mass incarceration in the United States.