President Obama’s Selective Clemency Continues
President Barack Obamacommuted the sentences of 111 federal inmates today, bringing his commutations to a total of 325…
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How the Money Bail System Perpetuates America’s Mass Incarceration Problem
If there was ever an example of how economic incentives can warp the institutions of justice, local jails are it.
The Department of Justice Will End the Use of Private Prisons in America
But it won’t solve our country’s incarceration problem. By Jared Keller (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images) The United States…
The Humanities Behind Bars
Learning to be free while sitting in a maximum-security prison. By Nancy Shepherdson The cells of the Illinois…
California’s Dangerous Potential New Death Penalty Initiative
At a time when more inmates on death row die from suicide than execution, the Death Penalty Reform…
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…
Re-Naming Rikers
Outrage over the penitentiary’s mistreatment of inmates has aligned with a movement to expunge racist names from American…
Trial and Error: Prosecutors Rarely Pay the Price for Mistakes and Misconduct
An Innocence Project report that looked at more than 650 examples of prosecutorial error or misconduct found just…
Prison Girlfriends and Wives
The latest entry in a series of interviews about subculture in America.
Blacks at All Wealth Levels Are More Likely Than Whites to Be Incarcerated
More evidence that race plays a role in who goes to jail in the U.S.