Biden has taken some critical first steps in making the Department of Justice more representative of America, but there’s more work to be done.

Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.

Pollsters keep tripping over contradictions in how communities of color talk about cops.

A jury spared Calvin McMillan’s life, but a judge sentenced him to death anyway. Will the Roberts court save or condemn him?

Why Black officers have to be at the forefront of efforts to transform America’s racist police culture.

In her historic DNC speech, the former prosecutor elided most of her resume to craft a different image of her record.

The George Floyd protests have spread to the heavily white areas of rural Ohio. Only time will tell whether the alliance will last.

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.