What is it Like to Have Brunch with Sex Offenders?
Josh Gravens went to prison when he was 12 for touching his sister's vagina. Now he's fighting to change the laws that destroyed his life.
Josh Gravens went to prison when he was 12 for touching his sister's vagina. Now he's fighting to change the laws that destroyed his life.
President Obama says marijuana shouldn't be a priority for young people, but all the young people whose lives have been ruined by the drug war would disagree.
Q and A with author David Skarbek.
Inmate had to beg for proper medical care.
Journalists and prisoners stage a First Amendment challenge to state secrecy regarding executions.
First time the military has approved transgender therapy for active soldier.
Finding common ground on criminal justice and prison reform for America's right.
"Get politicians out of the way and let judges judge," as bill co-sponsor Sen. Patrick Leahy put it.
Despite court orders and ballot initiatives, Golden State prisons remain criminally overcrowded.
Last year 125 people were freed from prison due to innocence, including six on death row.
A different sort of telecom monopoly
A surprising new history about race and prison
Soft-on-crime polices don't work. But neither do rampant imprisonment and overcriminalization.
If the government believes what it does at Gitmo is humane, it ought to release the videos and prove it.
The number of inmates in state prisons is set to rise 3 percent by 2018 and reverse a recent downward trend.
"Tough on crime" laws are bad policy and bad politics.
Crime is coming down faster in states where incarceration is declining.
Nonviolent felonies downgraded to misdemeanors
Gottfrid Warg gets 42 months in jail.
Was left in scorching hot cell in mental health unit, prompting public outrage
Media outlets had been fighting for the release
Also insists Iran is not building a nuclear bomb and ducks questions about arrests for a Youtube video, Washington Post journalists, and a 25 year-old woman watching a volleyball game.
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