07Jun, 2016
Mass Incarceration’s Real Costs
The social and economic impacts on our communities are devastating. We need to seize the opportunity to reform our criminal-justice system.
03Jun, 2016
Corrections Officials and Depression
Prison can be a dark, lonely place. The isolation; the ever-present threat of violence; the cold, bare walls and heavy iron bars—it’s not surprising that some of those inside corrections facilities struggle with maintaining their emotional and mental health.
03Jun, 2016
Can We Stop the Train of Piecemeal Reform?
If we look back to the 2012 presidential election, the criminal legal system, much less mass incarceration, were not even on the list of issues to be debated
27May, 2016
Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights to Felons
The sweeping order, in a swing state that could play a role in deciding the November presidential election, will enable all felons who have served their prison time and finished parole or probation to register to vote. Most are African-Americans, a core constituency of Democrats, Mr. McAuliffe’s political party.
25May, 2016
Quashed Report Warned of Prison Health Crisis
WASHINGTON — A government report, blocked from publication a decade ago, presciently warned of an advancing, double-barreled health crisis of mental illness and substance abuse that has currently swamped the nation’s vast prison systems.
03Apr, 2016
Aging, Sick and Incarcerated: The Need for Compassionate Release
Mary Ziman already had debilitating fibromyalgia and, unable to work, was on permanent disability. Then she was arrested and sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute marijuana, methamphetamine and cocaine, charges she says stemmed from fabrications by a woman with mental illness caught with drugs and a gun. That was 17 years ago.
21Feb, 2016
Why Mass Incarceration Doesn’t Pay
THE growth in the nation’s prison population has been nothing short of staggering. The United States’ incarceration rate is now more than four times the world average, with about 2.2 million people in prisons and jails.