Pacific Standard spoke with Camille Fassett, a researcher with Lucy Parsons Labs, about the OpenOversight program—a public database indexing law enforcement officers by name, photo, incidents, and more.
An interview with the managing editor at one of the country's most widely read prison newspapers.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice currently has an ombudsman within the agency, but two state politicians argue that making the position independent will lead to more objectivity.
The California governor's clemency decisions focus on people facing what he seems to view as systemic injustices. But his record on pardons wasn't always so progressive.
Scientists revise results on a major climate study, Trump supports criminal justice reform, and palm oil production threatens orangutan habitat.
A member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee discusses the retaliation prisoners face when fighting for their rights.
Hurricane Katrina forced policymakers in the city and state to fix not only some of the worst circumstances of incarceration, but also to prevent people from being held in dangerous conditions altogether.
Here's how Sessions, who resigned Wednesday at Trump's request, will be remembered.
Pacific Standard spoke with Alyssa Smaldino, an organizer with Survived and Punished, about the governor's record reluctance to commute the sentences of jailed domestic abuse survivors.
Now that felons can vote in Florida, Democrats might see a boost in future elections.
In one of the most consequential mid-term measures nationwide, Florida's Amendment 4 would automatically restore voting rights to most felons who complete their sentences.
Most of the country is making it easier for former felons to vote. But in the South, the number of voters removed due to felonies has nearly doubled in the past decade, an APM Reports/Pacific Standard analysis shows.
I've seen firsthand how music can restore what's missing in prison: a respect for humanity.
The latest ruling comes as a success for advocates of criminal justice reform.
Several groups representing inmates at Angola claim the prison's poor living conditions violate the Eighth Amendment.
With this ruling, Washington joined 20 other states and the District of Columbia that consider juvenile life without parole unconstitutional
America's courts still don't have clear protections for defendants with severe mental illness.
After hearing the last appeal from a man on death row, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the death penalty, as applied in the state, is unconstitutional.
The case—Brett Kavanaugh's first as a Supreme Court justice—deals with mandatory detention laws to keep immigrants in prisons during trials, even if they aren't a public danger or flight risk.
The shuttering of a prison debate club shows the precarious nature of free-speech rights among American inmates.
On Botham Shem Jean and the American obsession with criminalizing dead black people.
Lawyer Melissa Goemann says implementing restorative justice practices allowed New Zealand to end the wholesale incarceration of children—and the U.S. should follow suit.
The bill abolishes paying money as a condition of release from jail pre-trial.