Operation Liberation and One Struggle KC were created to fight for the Black community. But they ended up in court. From ...

The Vera Institute of Justice launched its Motion for Justice campaign, which convenes prosecutors' offices and ...

The First Step Act can’t work without residential reentry centers. In the four-state region that includes Kansas and Missouri ...

Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar, authors of Prison By Any Other Name, argue that prison reform just widens the net of the criminal justice system. Victoria Law, left, and Maya Schenwar, right, are the ...

Left-leaning think tanks never tire of talking about mass incarceration in the United States. It's particularly bad in states like Texas, Florida and New York, for example – or so we're told. But, as ...

More than 50 years have passed since the U.S. prison population surged, and advocacy organizers nationwide have since united to challenge mass incarceration. The U.S. will need continued leadership ...

For several years, the most ambitious goal among criminal justice reform advocates has been to reduce America's staggering and world-leading reliance on prisons and jails. On Wednesday, the American ...

COVID-19 and other infectious diseases spread rapidly in carceral facilities, which, in turn, fuel broader community infections. Decarceration is key for US public health, but its implementation ...

A little known fact imperils our nation’s collective efforts to end mass incarceration: Major cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are no longer bearing the heaviest burden. Instead, ...

It’s not just the prisoner who suffers. The U.S. incarcerates a higher percentage of its citizens than any other country in the world. There’s little doubt among researchers that mass incarceration is ...

The rising tide of mass incarceration may slowly be subsiding. By the end of last year, the nation's overall prison population had dropped to below 1.5 million for the first time in more than a decade ...