The Berlin Freiheitsfonds (Freedom Fund) initiative has managed to secure the release of 15 convicts incarcerated for failing ...

By devaluing incarcerated labor, prisons devalue all labor. Prisons are fundamentally anti-labor institutions, and guards’ ...

If you’ve never wondered who made the chair you’re sitting on, here’s the answer: prisoners.

Tucked away five miles south of Newton, Iowa, Newton Correctional Facility holds 938 low- and medium-security inmates. The ...

In Syria, over a thousand people have been killed, the vast majority of them civilians, in a spate of massacres largely targeting the country’s Alawite religious minority. Syria’s longtime ruling ...

The pandemic bared the cruelty of prison in new ways. It was a lost opportunity to move away from mass incarceration.

The pardon power is a rare instance where our government has enshrined the quality of mercy. That's a virtue we should value ...

It is one of the greatest honors of my life that my esteemed colleagues at T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights have ...

When she received an invitation to speak at the California Institution for Men, a prison in the city of Chino, California, in August, she saw a new opportunity to help interrupt the cycle of domestic ...

For years, Leigh Goodmark was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions. Now she’s ...

SULLIVAN — A Sullivan woman faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted of possession of intent to deliver methamphetamine.

On February 27, the Department of Politics & Policy and Department of Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies hosted the 2025 Black ...