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prison reform
March 13, 2024
Steve Brooks
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Juan Moreno Haines
Climate Change Is Turning Prisons Into Death Traps
Heat waves and floods are making Californian prisons increasingly unlivable. The state needs a better plan to address that.
April 10, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The New American Death Sentence
Police are making low-level arrests even as public health experts have called for immediate decarceration to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
April 7, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Shock Doctrine Came for Bail Reform
Conservative opponents of cash bail reform in New York saw an opportunity in the pandemic—and took it.
October 17, 2019
Melissa Gira Grant
Imagining a World Without Prisons
On Thursday, the New York City Council will vote on shutting down the jails on Rikers Island. Should new ones replace them, or is it time to reform criminal justice more broadly?
August 11, 2019
Andrew Cohen
The Completely Predictable Death of Jeffrey Epstein
If you are shocked by a jail suicide you aren’t paying attention to the grim conditions of incarceration in America.
January 31, 2018
Matt Ford
Is Trump serious about prison reform?
May 13, 2015
Joel Gillin
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Get Hired
A single tweak to job applications would change the lives of millions of ex-cons
April 1, 2015
Naomi Shavin
A Republican Governor Is Leading the Country's Most Successful Prison Reform
July 29, 2014
The New Republic Staff
Prison Reform May Be The Last Bipartisan Issue Left in D.C.
Even Van Jones and Newt Gingrich agree
June 12, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Could Fighting Ex-Con Discrimination be a Conservative Cause?
Employers are screening ex-cons. This could be a bipartisan issue.
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