Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s Juneteenth announcement of $400 million in state funds to historically underserved communities isn’t sitting well with some Republican lawmakers, who view the initiative as ...

Tens of thousands of people were jailed as part of President Nayib Bukele crackdown on gangs. Some police officers now admit ...

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration Rachel Elise Barkow. Harvard Univ, $35 (320p) ISBN 978-0-674-29422-6 ...

Moreover, relative to the US-born, immigrants’ incarceration rates have declined since 1960: immigrants today are 60% less likely to be incarcerated (30% relative to US-born whites). This relative ...

Professor Todd Clear, a leading scholar on mass incarceration, discusses his research on the social consequences of incarceration and argues for a reimagining of justice that centers community health ...

Mass incarceration is a public health crisis that harms the health and well-being of incarcerated people, corrections staff, ...