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Will the Great U.S. Penal Reform Tip the Balance for Addicts?

In California and beyond, an unprecedented "experiment" is giving tens of thousands of non-violent offenders the chance of alternatives to prison. Most have severe drug problems. What are their prospects?

Michael Dhar

News in Brief

The Reasons Behind the Slow Pace of Executions

Opponents of the death penalty have hit upon an effective tactic: Learn who is making the lethal drugs used in executions and publicly shame them. Now, death penalty states are fighting to make the names of the drugs a state secret.

Raymond Bonner

Social Justice

Marriage May Calm a Criminal Impulse in Men

Likewise, divorce can send past offenders back into lives of crime.

Lauren Kirchner

News in Brief

California Hunger Strike Raises Issue of Force-Feeding on U.S. Soil

Guantanamo Bay isn’t the only place the U.S. has force-fed prisoners.

Christie Thompson

News in Brief

Vacuum Cleaners, Yoga, and Keeping Inmates Sane

Whatever the method, it’s in everyone’s best interest.

Lauren Kirchner

News in Brief

Thousands of California Inmates on Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement

Here are their five demands.

Lauren Kirchner

News in Brief

Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them

The nation’s system of juvenile justice has long been troubled. But recent studies have revealed a surprising new menace: female staffers at detention facilities sexually abusing the male youngsters in their care.

Joaquin Sapien

Social Justice

Treating Mental Illness Prevents Crime and Saves Us Money

Giving psychiatric help to people who need it isn’t just the right thing for a society to do, it’s the most cost-effective thing, too.

Lauren Kirchner

News in Brief

Is Drug Trafficking Worse Than Murder?

Data from the war on low-level drug offenders.

Julie Turkewitz

Social Justice

Study: More Black Juveniles Sentenced to Life Without Parole

As the U.S. Supreme Court gets ready to examine life without parole for juvenile killers, a new study identifies the racial and sociological backstories of the existing prisoners.

Lewis Beale