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Mass incarceration
Mass incarceration news and analysis from The Nation
June 25, 2019
The criminal-justice reformer who has promised "people-powered justice" finished primary night with a lead of more than 1,000 votes.
April 9, 2019
A half-century of Washington’s harsh drug prohibition policies has brought misery to millions across the globe.
April 8, 2019
The Youth Correctional Leaders for Justice will help guide towns, cities, and states on how to close youth prisons for good.
March 8, 2019
Congressman Mark Pocan just got the House to approve an end to Census counts that distort representation at local and state levels.
February 12, 2019
Progressives should seize on the law’s momentum and help it grow.
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November 12, 2018
In letters compiled by the American Prison Writing Archive, inmates share accounts of suicide, friendship, and solitary confinement.
October 16, 2018
Changing the institutional culture of incarceration could entail a social consensus that locking people up is never the ideal way to resolve social problems.
August 9, 2018
Mapping the corporations and firms with stakes in our jails, prisons, and immigrant-detention centers.
July 31, 2018
The movement that is trying to think beyond prisons as a tool to solve society’s problems.
July 13, 2018
Five years after he helped launch the largest-ever prison hunger strike, Todd Ashker is back in isolation. And he’s not the only one.
