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

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

Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.

Fears about a spike in abuse were proved wrong. Now mothers with firsthand experience of the system want to transform its approach to family safety, which is rooted in racist surveillance and carceral intervention.

Private businesses are paying police big bucks to work during their off-hours. Now a slew of start-ups are looking for a piece of that action.

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.

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

A bail fund to help free detained Muslims finds new urgency as Covid-19 spreads rapidly through prisons and jails.

Criminal justice reformers are rethinking the crusade against cash bail.

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.