A prison built on trash heaps and racism could become a job-providing source of clean energy for some of the most polluted boroughs of New York City.

Inside the hell of solitary confinement

An abolitionist demand rose to mainstream prominence. Now every politician and cable news talking head is suddenly an expert.

“The cops at the protest that day wouldn’t make eye contact. They were laughing at one point. I think they think this is funny.”

The protests across the country are about more than police violence.

“It got to the point where us pregnant females were denying our medical treatment. It was almost like a boycott.”

In April, Darlene “Lulu” Benson-Seay became the first woman incarcerated by New York State to die from Covid-19. Should she have been in prison in the first place?

Ramon Ward was exonerated thanks to a new system of reinvestigating old cases. He hopes he’s not the last.

How a New York law on “masquerading” passed in the early nineteenth century has been used—and abused—in the decades since

It's commonly held that letting the cops do crimes is a big no-no, but thanks to a zany lower court ruling the question is in the Supreme Court's hands.

Petitions for early release reveal the contours of people’s lives before incarceration, conditions on the inside, and what might come after.

As states grant early release to slow the spread of Covid-19, many people are leaving incarceration broke and without a net.

Police are making low-level arrests even as public health experts have called for immediate decarceration to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Conservative opponents of cash bail reform in New York saw an opportunity in the pandemic—and took it.

Criminal justice reformers are rethinking the crusade against cash bail.

Hospital workers, street medics, and people in prison describe navigating the coronavirus and life as they know it right now.

A long prison sentence can’t repair the harm he caused for dozens of women over many decades. What would it look like to demand more?

“I remember one woman who arrived and asked, ‘Is this the clinic?’ And we were like, ‘What clinic?’”

A verdict has been rendered, but no criminal case will tell the full story about Weinstein or the women he’s harmed.

Trump's Super Bowl ad was rightly criticized for its political opportunism. It also exposed the limits of current efforts to reshape the justice system.