Back in the Hole: America’s Inability to Put an End to Solitary Confinement
A new book teaches the alarming lesson that all attempts at reforming solitary confinement have merely enabled the…
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Criminal Justice Reform
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Thousands of Potentially Wrongful Convictions and Years of Delayed Action
Four years after a Massachusetts crime lab chemist confessed to tainting evidence, more than 20,000 defendants still don’t…
How the Man Who Signed Katy Perry And Lorde Is Challenging Wrongful Convictions
In his new podcast, Lava Records CEO Jason Flom foregrounds exonerees’ disturbing stories of criminal injustice. He personally…
‘The Wicked Boy’ and the Capacity for Criminal Rehabilitation
Kate Summerscale’s new book is a vivid portrait of how one sensational murder roiled Victorian England. The real…
How Prisons Overtook Schools as the Foremost American Institutions
Schools are paying the price for our fear. By Jared Keller (Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) If, as the…
The Judge of the Brock Turner Trial Approved a Harsher Sentence for a Latino Defendant
The similarities in the two cases highlight the racial biases that plague the criminal justice system. By Kate…
Should We Rank Prisoners by ‘Risk Score’?
A popular sentencing reform bill would score federal prisoners according to their risk of recidivating. Those who got…
Are Conservatives Really Ready for Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform?
A new book advances the increasingly popular idea that conservatives are abandoning their tough-on-crime orthodoxy. Sadly, it’s a…