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

The organizing and outrage over inmate heat deaths is reaching a crescendo this summer.

The Florida governor’s war on Disney continues.

The departure of a controversial Republican sheriff gave hope to reformers in Western New York. But very little has changed.

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

Gavin Newsom’s refusal to let Kennedy’s 77-year-old killer die at home after a half-century behind bars is nothing more than a cynical political stunt.

Like other progressive prosecutors, Alvin Bragg is trying to acknowledge that prison time doesn’t fight crime.

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

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

“I’m going to charge them with whatever felonies I can to take away their ability to vote.”

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.

Inside the hell of solitary confinement

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

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

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

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.

South Dakota's viral meth prevention campaign masks a punitive, racist reality.