And Justice For All

If given the attention it deserves, an important new book entitled "Facing the US Prison Problem 2.3 Million Strong," is certain to make significant contributions to the public discussions of US prison policy.

“It appears that race, geography and youth largely determines who gets the death penalty in Colorado,” wrote a group of NAACP leaders in a letter urging Gov. Hickenlooper to grant clemency. They note that not a single black juror served on the panel that sentenced Dunlap to death.

Sequarier McCoy shifted in her seat behind a security glass window, waiting for her children to arrive, fiddling with the crayons, markers and paper scattered on the table.

The new documentary, "Redemption and the Prosecutor," is a first step toward making mass incarceration an organizing focus in churches across the country.

Two Senate lawmakers and the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court are asking the state to look into the possible disparity of minority children being

A 19th century tool for instilling fear in the public to pay off debt

Have you ever heard of a prisoner with life insurance or health care? No. This is because every prison sentence could very well end up in death to the inmate. We are not expected to survive prison....

"Race to Incarcerate" is considered a landmark indictment of a system that locks the poor and minorities up with abandon, while largely neglecting support systems for reintegration back to society.

New York openly practices it, but in what other areas are racially skewed police stops an issue?

John Sutter says it's wrong that America has become the world capital for this cruel practice

In Texas, the "good guy with a gun" does a lot more policing than protecting.

Mark Ciavarella Jr, a 61-year old former judge in Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for literally selling young juveniles for cash.

Federal prisoners can request compassionate release if they are terminally ill, but a recent investigation found that many die while their requests drift through the system.

Unlike the ‘Real Housewives,’ prisoners aren’t really exercising free will when they sign up to exploited on TV.

In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a...

Across much of the country, sealing or clearing a criminal record after a wrongful conviction is a tangled and expensive process, advocates and former prisoners say.

We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here's why.

The private prison population in the US has rocketed 17-fold over the last two decades mostly on the shoulders of the deep-pocketed prison lobby, and the business continues to thrive.

The Code Switch team rounds up recent news about race and our prison system, and finds a complicated picture about incarceration.

So you thought that private prison companies were operating several corrections facilities for the state of New Mexico? Think again. They are being run by “real estate investment trusts.”

Districts should think twice before deploying more cops in schools because it might hurt students more than it helps them.

When police officers first became a common fixture in high schools in the 1990s, school districts presumably had expectations that the law enforcement would protect students from violence.

The U.S. has the world's highest incarceration rate, with 2.2 million people, or nearly 1 in 100 behind bars. Rising immigration detentions and the disastrous "war on drugs" have helped push inmate numbers to record highs in recent decades.

The shady people and companies behind the push to expand drug testing.