*It is a rare instance where art and life truly run parallel, our recently Emmy nominated film “Freeway: Crack in the System” that was presented by Al Jazeera was one of those moments. A tale bigger ...

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A documentary screening at the Roxy Theater aims to help continue drawing attention to the issue of mass incarceration in the U.S., which has the most imprisoned citizens of any nation in the ...

Left-leaning think tanks never tire of talking about mass incarceration in the United States. It's particularly bad in states like Texas, Florida and New York, for example – or so we're told. But, as ...

We look at a remarkable film that follows how acclaimed playwright Liza Jessie Peterson gave a mesmerizing performance of her one-person play “The Peculiar Patriot” at the Louisiana State Penitentiary ...

When James Forman Jr. was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor many years ago, she encouraged him to go to work for the Department of Justice or a national civil rights organization.

What legislators call "tough-on-crime" policies—things like longer prison sentences, stricter parole boards, and mandatory minimum sentences—have been waxing and waning in fashion since the 1970s. The ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization addressing the crisis of mass incarceration and policing. But these critics are wrong. There ...

More and more art is challenging long-held assumptions about the criminal justice system. The interdisciplinary artist Sable Elyse Smith in her New York City studio on July 5, 2022, with works from ...

The US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. There are currently two million people in prisons and jails in this country. Yet mass incarceration, for all the lives it touches, ...

Weber is an African American studies professor at University of California, Davis. He has worked at the Vera Institute of Justice, Alternate ROOTS, the Marcus Garvey Papers Project, and as a public ...