Mass Incarceration

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.

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.