Prisons

How have the politics and statistics Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) used in his 1999 song “Mathematics” changed in the 15 years since the song's release?

In the state of California it costs roughly seven times more to house one prisoner for a year than it does to send just one child to a college …

Police are now crunching crime statistics to divine when and where future crimes are most likely to occur, a method seen by some as an expansion of a militarization …

Solitary confinement is torture - and it's not benefitting anyone in society. So, why does it continue to be used?

The death of a Canadian teen who strangled herself in a Canadian prison was ruled a homicide in a coroner's inquest. Is this a new form of killing by …

Davis’s work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced social movements across generations.

Two psychologists deplore the decision by the American Psychological Association to continue to condone the profession's involvement in prisoner abuse at Guantanamo.

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.

“Dear Marissa” is an apology to Marissa Alexander, a black woman who was sentenced in Florida to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot at her abusive …