Mass Incarceration

Victims and perpetrators sitting down face to face. It can help heal their wounds, and our society. Incarcerating our way out of crime clearly hasn't worked, and it's costing …

On June 21, 2014, formerly incarcerated women, family members and advocates gathered in Washington, DC for the FreeHer rally to draw attention to the mass incarceration of women and …

The death of a Pennsylvania mother in jail last week has once again highlighted the punitive cycle of criminal justice debt.

In Southern states, small-town courts have outsourced probation management to for-profit companies.

An elite scientific panel noted with alarm that the U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world.

The Obama administration is talking up the possibility of using presidential clemency powers to release some prisoners, but this is not the beginning of a rollback of America's prison …

What a strange moment we're in. Prison ‘reform’ is in vogue.

Eric Holder's argument for reconsideration of felon disenfranchisement laws and reductions in mandatory minimum sentences is a positive sign.

While any effort to stop mass incarceration must be expansive in scope and size, it ultimately has to be accessible to those directly affected.

The concept is simple: fund what works, dump what doesn't.