Public health recommendations aren’t easy to follow for the incarcerated, unhoused, or the thousands who’ve been subjected to water shutoffs in recent years.
The heads of the Montgomery County public defender office were fired two weeks ago after filing an amicus brief about the use of pretrial detention and money bail against their clients
Incumbent District Attorneys faced challenges from reform candidates in California and Texas
A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative and VOCAL-NY analyzes residence data for incarcerated people and uses it to look at how incarceration relates to community well-being
The county of Philadelphia alone has more people sentenced to life without parole than any other nation in the world.
A new survey shows support across political lines for second-look legislation and sentence review by prosecutors
A culture of violence and resistance to reform in the corrections department set the stage for a recent lockdown
Leaving power with the same actors, who equate safety with mass criminalization and detention, will yield the same results.
Kalief Browder’s death in 2015 and Layleen Polanco’s in 2019 are reminders that jail is the real threat to public safety.
A small school district spent $1.4 million to equip surveillance cameras with the technology.
In 1976, New York criminalized “loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense,” a law that has allowed for policing that targets LGBTQ and immigrant New Yorkers of color. Now, a broad coalition is hoping to repeal the law, as a step towards broader decriminalization.
Opposition to it should lay the groundwork for opposition to the system of which it is a part.
“A public health approach neither accepts harm as a given nor accepts punishment as prevention.”
A case before the Kentucky Supreme Court involves a challenge to the practice of charging people for the time they are held in jail even if they are ultimately not convicted of the charges against them.
“We will prioritize family integrity and family unity at every stage of the process to the extent we can do so.”
Testimony by an architect of the CIA torture program is a reminder of the problem of torture—and health professionals’ complicity—by domestic law enforcement
Two recent investigations look at how, in the name of fighting crime, police departments engage in dangerous, often fatal, vehicle pursuits
Moms 4 Housing made a home for their families in a vacant house in Oakland. Yesterday, police in tanks and riot gear evicted them.
A class-action lawsuit filed Saturday alleges that staff at a New Hampshire youth detention center subjected children to physical, sexual, and emotional abuse
“I sometimes wonder whether, in 100 years’ time, people will be as shocked by the length of sentences we are imposing as we are by some of the punishments of the 18th century,” the lord chief justice of England and Wales said in 2006.
An enormous database of DNA samples could pave the way for increasingly exclusionary anti-immigrant policies
On the eve of the state’s marijuana legalization law going into effect, Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois announced that he would issue 11,017 pardons to people with low-level marijuana convictions.
Children who have been in foster care, especially those who have been subjected to multiple moves, are at a high risk of ending up incarcerated.
Rather than target fraudulent universities, ICE created its own to go after foreign students.
After protests over the police shooting of Alton Sterling, DeRay Mckesson, the Black Lives Matter activist, was sued by a police officer.
Compare this with New York where additional transit police will cost $50 million a year but a subsidized fare program cannot be fully funded.
A rule restricting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will have profound consequences for people with criminal legal system involvement.
Racial disparities in incarceration rates are dropping but still remain high. Racial disparities in sentence lengths are growing.
Tribal jurisdiction over intimate partner and sexual violence was created in the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and advocates argue it is necessary for accountability and safety.
Recent reporting is a reminder of the crisis of elderly and ailing people in US prisons.
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 24-10 in favor of the MORE Act, which would legalize marijuana at the federal level.
In a letter to the sentencing judge, the Minnesota representative called for compassion toward the man who pleaded guilty to threatening to kill her.
Efforts are underway to address life without parole sentences and free people who have been in prison for decades.
Even when retaliation is likely, people speak out about the violence and abuse they experience and witness.
