Thousands of New Yorkers are in prison for life. Now candidates who are running in Manhattan’s June primary say they will help more people receive parole and stop seeking decades-long sentences.
Three district attorneys are speaking out against Oregon’s “one-strike-you’re-out” law and breaking ranks with a prosecutors’ lobby that has long pushed for harsh policies.
Dan Quart makes the case for addressing the “systemic breakdown” in New York’s prisons and jails with shorter sentences, ending cash bail, and other reforms.
This year of crises, revisited: Nearly 90 state-level bills and initiatives. 16 themes. 7 maps.
Two states move to protect immigrants, marijuana meets varying fates, Oklahoma tackles sentencing reform
Vermont and Massachusetts legislation would abolish life without parole sentences, while other states consider that reform for minors.
Dismantling mass incarceration requires a new consensus that the hundreds of thousands spending decade after decade in prison should be free.
Court issued a series of major youth sentencing and death penatly rulings in 2016. But its politics could soon swing dramatically.
Voters overwhelmingly approved measures to restore voting rights and enable bolder sentencing reform.
Ohio’s Issue 1 ballot initiative could ‘deal a blow’ to mass incarceration
Can a candidate for prosecutor make Payne and Logan counties “a mecca for criminal justice reform?”
The Appeal: Political Report reviews the results of Rhode Island’s 2018 Democratic primaries. Rhode Island toughened drug sentencing this year, a move that then emerged as a factor in the state’s Democratic primaries. Dubbed Kristen’s Law, the new legislation created a penalty of up to life in prison for people who sell drugs that lead […]