After seeing firsthand how the juvenile justice system affected their relatives, advocates are pushing for alternatives to youth incarceration and working to raise awareness.Growing up, Tamia Cenance could not fully…
It takes a constitutional amendment followed by a statewide vote to legalize balloting behind bars. Will it happen?
The law in Martha Wright-Reed's name calls on the FCC to better regulate the exorbitant costs of prison and jail phone calls for incarcerated people and their families.
Maya Schenwar asked organizers working to dismantle incarceration what is giving them hope for 2023. Here’s what they shared.
Since 2013, the New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons initiative, or NJ-STEP, has helped hundreds of individuals earn degrees. What’s next for the program?
A reformist approach to women’s incarceration places the responsibility of reform on the individual, not the institution.
Data obtained by The Appeal show nearly 2,000 people in Mississippi and Louisiana are serving long—and sometimes life—sentences after they were labeled “habitual offenders." But most are behind bars for…
Bills that would restrict solitary confinement and allow review of inmates’ trials that were tainted by racial bias are now awaiting Gov. Newsom’s signature.
Advocates of assisted outpatient treatment say it could reduce homelessness and mass shootings. Critics call it incarceration by another name.
What do you do with people who are repeatedly failed by social services and the legal system?
As negotiations for Abu Zubaydah resumed this week, the CIA agent who captured him highlights the unethical and illegal issues of the arrangement.
Aside from a 2021 moratorium on federal executions, the Biden administration hasn’t taken any steps to end the practice.
As one of the many calculated cruelties that define the US prison-industrial complex, the long assault on prisoners’ ability to read books while incarcerated is sinister, inhumane, and must be…
Despite minimal pay, rigorous training, and insufficient care for grueling injuries, incarcerated firefighters risk their lives to combat deadly fires during California's wildfire season.
Hundreds of incarcerated people have died between 2015-2019 in Louisiana jails and prisons due to lack of government oversight and accountability.
