A car is a necessity in most parts of the U.S. It also exposes drivers to fines, police harassment, and predatory loans.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle spent the midterms telling us that more police and prisons will make us safer. Voters didn’t bite—and perhaps they know better.

The way to a stronger democracy starts with reforming our massive criminal justice system.

Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont will all change their state constitution.

How the city’s media created public panic over a crime wave that wasn’t and dismantled Colorado’s storied juvenile justice system

Federal drug policy needs a major overhaul, but Rahul Gupta has a record of making harmful compromises.

Thousands of incarcerated people went home early thanks to a Covid relief program. Why would the Biden administration send them back to prison?

Tech companies praised the Derek Chauvin conviction, but their products underwrite the kind of impunity and overstep they claim to oppose.

Prison gerrymandering, in which incarcerated people are designated as residents of the areas where a prison or jail is located, is a system of strategic disenfranchisement.

You might think I work outside the U.S., beyond the reach of our labor laws. You’d be wrong.

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.

Denying people the vote is presumed—wrongly—to be part of the deprivation of being locked up.

The state is dependent on workers it deems disposable and essential at the same time.

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

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.

From manufacturing hand sanitizer to processing chicken, incarcerated workers face extreme risk for virtually no pay.

After a mountaintop was flattened by coal mining, politicians pushed to build a prison there. Then the community got organized.