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Prison reform
Prison reform news and analysis from The Nation
June 24, 2020
In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. emphasized the need to overcome “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.” The same holds true today.
June 9, 2020
A first step: redistribution for reconstruction.
May 14, 2020
A lawsuit about conditions at Danbury prison shows why it is impossible to keep the incarcerated safe.
April 20, 2020
To insulate facilities from the coronavirus, prisons and jails are not allowing people to see their incarcerated loved ones.
March 11, 2020
Jonathan Irons is staring at freedom after 23 years in prison, in part because basketball superstar Maya Moore made it her mission to set him free.
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November 27, 2019
Tell your lawmaker to visit a prison; call on Congress to reduce excessive sentencing; and help people make bail.
November 21, 2019
Meet Swift Justice, the incarcerated organizer fighting to transform Alabama’s prisons.
October 15, 2019
Faced with legal and legislative setbacks and the defection of more Republicans, Trump is waging an increasingly strident propaganda war.
August 20, 2019
No, Epstein was not killed by a cabal of powerful men who wanted to silence him. But his death was part of a larger plot: the US prison system.
July 26, 2019
Reinvestment is an opening to the path to reparative justice.
