Decarceration is the most effective way to reduce the health burdens associated with incarceration, as it can decrease ...

Tough on crime approaches are failing to make communities safer, instead undermining the rights of children and increasing ...

Some South Dakota lawmakers are trying to find out why so many men and women are in the state’s overcrowded prisons. The ...

An incarceration summer study committee will convene for its first of three meetings on June 23, to examine SD's prison ...

The USA has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Shelves of books and reams of media exposés have revealed the inhumanity of American jails, prisons, and immigration detention ...

Moreover, relative to the US-born, immigrants’ incarceration rates have declined since 1960: immigrants today are 60% less likely to be incarcerated (30% relative to US-born whites). This relative ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s plan to give $400 million in state funds to historically underserved communities isn’t sitting well ...

A reader called this situation a “mess” and asked how we got here and what can be done to fix it. The road to mass ...

Gov. Wes Moore unveiled $400M in grants for communities harmed by racism and issued 6,900 new cannabis pardons during a ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore marked Juneteenth by pardoning nearly 7,000 cannabis-related offenses and allocating $400 million to ...