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Social Justice

Overcrowded Prisons Giving Old Inmates New Life

Aging prisoners serving long sentences are filling overcrowded lockups across the nation. Colorado prison officials hope a new program will help let some of these old guys get out — and stay out.

Joshua Zaffos

Economics

Private Prisons Can’t Lock In Savings

A report from The Sentencing Project argues that a primary driver for privatizing corrections isn’t really paying off.

Emily Badger

Social Justice

War on Drugs Remains at Stalemate After 40 Years

Pretty much everyone agrees the war on drugs is a failure. So why don’t we try a different approach?

Emily Badger

Education

Lee Baca Wants to Educate L.A.’s Prisoners

In this Miller-McCune Q&A, Los Angeles County's top cop Lee Baca explains why he wants to offer an education to tens of thousands of prisoners.

Vince Beiser

Education

Budget Idea: Divert Money From Prisons to Schools

With a quarter of the world's prisoners in American lockups, an unlikely coalition ranging from the NAACP to Americans for Tax Reform wonders if we might be smarter to divert some of that prison money to schools.

Emily Badger

Social Justice

Life in Prison Begins at 16

The PBS documentary "Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story" asks the question: Who is responsible when family and society so fail a promising child that she turns to prostitution and murder in her teens?

Tom Jacobs

News in Brief

Convict Commodification

Why incarceration should be just one of many strategies helping neighborhoods that produce bumper crops of crooks.

Michael Todd

Social Justice

Why Victims Face the Criminals Who Hurt Them

Some crime victims find their only real healing comes from a face-to-face meeting with the criminals who hurt them. Can research into this counterintuitive process help more victims regain control of their lives?

Mark Obbie

Economics

In Crimes of Passion, Women Get Benefit of the Doubt

New research finds women who kill their cheating lovers receive shorter sentences than men in the same situation.

Tom Jacobs

News in Brief

Prison-Based Gerrymandering Dilutes Blacks’ Voting Power

A new report concludes some majority-black legislative districts are penalized because of the way the census bureau counts their imprisoned residents.

Emily Badger