Corrections can’t be the end of the road in our justice system

Corrections is not only about punishment or security. It is where everything we fail to fix upstream finally shows up.

How the Global South Got Caught in the West’s Prison Pipeline

Together, they reveal how a global vision of mass incarceration is spreading, one cellblock at a time. These facilities ...
The New York Times

Prison Reform Left Women Behind. Then Prosecutors Stepped In.

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Headway California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated ...
UPI

President Donald Trump says United States will reopen 'enlarged' Alcatraz prison

May 4 (UPI) --President Donald Trump Sunday announced plans to reopen Alcatraz, the notorious prison in San Francisco that housed some of the nation's most infamous and dangerous criminals in the ...

The Prison and Justice Writing Program at PEN America Announces Incarcerated Writers Bureau

The Prison and Justice Writing Program at PEN America has announced its Incarcerated Writers Bureau . The bureau, announced ...
The New York Times

El Salvador’s Leader Says He Won’t Return Wrongly Deported Maryland Man

An Oval Office meeting between President Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador was a blunt example of Mr. Trump’s defiance of the federal courts. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs Reporting from ...
CNN

She was expelled from the United States, but still thought America would help. She was wrong

She asked to be identified only as “Ambo,” out of fear of being recognized back in her home country. “Life is very difficult for me,” she told CNN from a school-turned-shelter on a humidly hot day in ...