Prison population rises as ministers seek to tackle overcrowding - The prison population stands at 88,103, just 418 below the ...

Alcatraz as a prison? What about a coliseum that features Jan. 6 patriots? Hearst Castle as the Western White House? And don't forget Trump Tower Torrance.

In this chapter, I am putting prison and police abolition ideas into conversation with emerging work on border abolition. First, I make an argument for the importance of control of mobility as a ...

Families of men held in rural jails play an important role when it comes to navigating and making sense of the legalities, consequences and often conflicting responsibilities that accompany ...

Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration, by Rachel Elise Barkow, Harvard University Press, 320 pages, $35 Gorsuch and Nitze attribute that ...

The effects of mass incarceration doesn’t end with the parent Black Americans have long described mass incarceration as a “generational curse” bedeviling impoverished communities. New research by a ...

El Salvador currently holds the highest incarceration rate in the world, with over 1,000 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants as of 2024, according to World Prison Brief.

Studies show Black children are incarcerated at nearly five times the rate of their white peers. Racial disparities in the juvenile justice system have tended to mirror those in the adult criminal ...

Women in prison are four times as likely to report having been raped in their lifetime than those who are not incarcerated and 10 times as likely to report having been raped as a child, according to ...