Trump's Super Bowl ad was rightly criticized for its political opportunism. It also exposed the limits of current efforts to reshape the justice system.

South Dakota's viral meth prevention campaign masks a punitive, racist reality.

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?

Inmates are among the most vulnerable populations on our warming planet—and among the most ignored.

The first inside report from an ICE mental health facility

The U.S. criminal legal system protected him for years—and then it failed him, just as it has failed countless people of color who are put behind bars.

If you are shocked by a jail suicide you aren’t paying attention to the grim conditions of incarceration in America.

How the “supervised release” program pulls tens of thousands of former inmates back into prison without a fair trial

The Justice Department’s decision to shut down private prisons could signal the end of an era.

The Prison Litigation Reform Act is still trampling on prisoners' legal rights.

A trans woman's harrowing experience in solitary confinement.

Why are prisoners forced to pay fines when they are put in isolation?

Paying just $2 a day hurts our economy and punishes families

But we need to imprison people for fewer crimes and for less time

Yousef Khanfar's portraits of some of them

What we owe a murderer