Incarceration

Lawsuits used to be a path to prison reform, but they're now an uphill battle for prisoners and their families.

A member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee discusses the retaliation prisoners face when fighting for their rights.

Women wore, and sometimes designed, their own clothes in California prisons until the 1990s, when the state began issuing uniforms to its female inmates.

A former inmate discusses the organization and demands behind the recent nationwide prison strike.

Harvard University sociologist Bruce Western weighs in on the role of prisons in perpetuating human vulnerability.

On the labor issues connected with using inmates as extremely low-paid workers in state and federal prisons.

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But a tailored mindfulness program may negate the negative impact of imprisonment.

The rapper's experience with probation is far from unusual for ex-prisoners.

A new report from the New York City Board of Correction suggests that inmates have traded one problematic practice for another.

James Forman Jr.'s first book chronicles with compassion how the actions of black leaders sometimes hurt the very people they sought to save.

A new report finds that a drop in the prison population doesn't necessarily mean a drop in prison costs.

President Donald Trump has restored consumer confidence in private prisons—but they were never in danger of failing to begin with.

The latest entry in a series of interviews about subculture in America.

Plus: How to make "magical" roses out of Jolly Ranchers.

Beyond the cyclical criminalization that the device provokes, its rules and circumstances clash with the infrastructure of the teenage mind.

Can judges work with psychiatrists to help solve mass incarceration?

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

Parental incarceration can lead to serious health and behavioral problems for children, in both youth and adulthood.

A new report counts the costs that women, children, and families bear when a loved one gets incarcerated.

The current push for bipartisan criminal justice reform is missing the mark with its single-minded focus on non-violent offenders.

Movies and television don't do an adequate job capturing the day-to-day loneliness and the feelings of exclusion and shame.

Ban the Box initiatives are one step toward breaking the cycle of incarceration.