Three Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill to name a federal prison after Donald Trump.

Police unions, the retail lobby, and other critics of criminal justice reform have seized on viral images of package theft and shoplifting to push for a rollback of California’s efforts to reduce its prison population.

Prison officials touted a compassionate response to Covid, but the statistics tell another story.

Bill de Blasio and the correctional officers’ union say the crisis at Rikers Island is about understaffing. But no number of guards will solve the underlying problems with the jail.

Eyal Press’s new book studies essential workers who face a unique occupational hazard: moral injury.

The mainstreaming of “sex work is work” and strong decriminalization policy proposals are signs of the movement’s success. What comes next?

A protest in St. Louis exposed the deadly risks incarcerated people in the U.S. have faced for a year. Vaccine delays have only heightened those tensions.

We are facing a series of contradictions, expressed in big and small ways. Learn the wrong lessons, and we’re doomed.

To build community support, organizers in L.A. flipped the message—and tactic—from taking money away from cops to locking in funds for everything else. Will it work?

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

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.

A long prison sentence can’t repair the harm he caused for dozens of women over many decades. What would it look like to demand more?

It's not just Alabama. Inmates across the country are living—and dying—in horrific conditions.

A year after the hunger strike, some things have improved, but some things have gotten worse

Behind bars, Jonathan Lee Riches was offline. He still became an Internet Celebrity.