National/International Reentry News
11/14/17: The Crime Report: Fewer Prisoners, Less Crime? The Elusive Promise of Algorithms
11/8/17: Reason.com: Senators Push to Defund Jeff Sessions' Civil Asset Forfeiture Expansion
11/8/17: Time: Private Prisons Lock Up Thousands Of Americans With Almost No Oversight
11/8/17: Huffpost: In Virginia, Ex-Felons Voted For The First Time After Regaining Their Rights
11/6/17: Prison Legal News: CoreCivic's Announcement to Reduce Recidivism Criticized as PR Ploy
11/6/17: Boston Globe: From heroin addict to helping people get clean
11/6/17: Splinter: How Prisoners on the Verge of Freedom Are Getting Screwed by the Feds
11/2/17: The Crime Report: Redemption at the Gym: A Muscular Approach to Prisoner Reentry
11/1/17: The Crime Report: U.S. Gets 'Abysmal' Grade on Pretrial Justice
11/1/17: Reason.com: Scarlet-Letter Passports Are Unjust and Irrational
November/December 2017: Mother Jones: Giving Felons a Second Chance Isn't Just the Right Thing to Do: It also saves money
10/31/17: Witness LA: Study Shows "Significant" Racial Disparities In Plea Deals
10/31/17: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Analysis: History suggests that the deadly opioid epidemic shares chilling similarities with the past
10/30/17: The Crime Report: A Call For A New 'Public Agenda' on Criminal Justice
10/26/17: The Root: We Told Y'all: New Study Reveals How Every Phase of Criminal-Justice System Favors Whites
10/26/17: The Marshall Project: After 20 Years, Still Haunted by a Drug Conviction
10/25/17: The Chronicle of Higher Education: Higher Ed's Message to Ex-Felons: No Second Chances
10/25/17: The Marshall Project: Debating Risk-Assessment Tools
10/24/17: Boston Review: The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration
10/23/17: The Week: How American women are left to rot in jail
10:23:17: The Marshall Project: When Race Tips the Scales in Plea Bargaining
10/22/17: The Marshall Project: In Defense of Risk-Assessment Tools
10/19/17: The Nation: America Is Waking Up to the Injustice of Cash Bail
10/19/17: Prison Policy Initiative: Women's Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2017
10/17/17: The Marshall Project: Federal Prisons Don't Even Try to Rehabilitate the Undocumented
10/17/17: Harvard Law Review Blog: Costs of money bail to justice
10/15/17: 60 Minutes: Meet a Convicted Felon Who Became a Georgetown Law Professor
10/13/17: The Crime Report: Why Community Corrections Systems Fail
10/13/17: Teen Vogue: What It's Like to Have an Incarcerated Parent
10/13/17: The Nation: After Harvey, Texas Inmates Were Left in Flooeded Prisons Without Adequate Water or Food
10/11/17: Bloomberg: The Bicycle Maker That's Creating Good Jobs for Ex-Cons
10/11/17: The Marshall Project: Building Toward a Future: The unique prison re-entry plan conceived by -- and for -- women
10/11/17: Teen Vogue: These Formerly Incarcerated Women Are Trying to Change the Prison System
10/10/17: United States Representative Ted Lieu: Reps Lieu and Curbelo Lead Bipartisan Effort to Curb Costly and Unfair Bail Systems
10/10/17: The Crime Report: Returning Inmates Need "A Place to Call Home:" Study
10/10/17: The Marshall Project/Teen Vogue: What Is Prison Like for Women and Girls?
10/9/17: The Crime Report: Six Decades of Felonies in America
10/6/17: The Crime Report: Medicaid Expansion Tied to Reduction in Crime
10/5/17: Grits for Breakfast: Turns out drug war did contribute significantly to mass incarceration
10/4/17: Reveal: All Work. No Pay. They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants
10/4/17: The Crime Report: Byrne Grants Did Not Improve Police Effectiveness: Study
10/3/17: Pretrial Justice Institute: On the Long History of Bail
10/3/17: Wired: Inmates Need Social Media. Take It From a Former Prisoner
10/3/17: The Crime Report: In Natural Disasters, Are Inmates Expendable?
10/1/17: USA Today: Exploring recidivism in America
9/30/17: Washington Post: What protesting NFL players like me want to do next
9/27/17: Brennan Center for Justice: New House Bill Creates Incentives to Reduce Crime, Incarceration at Same Time
9/26/17: Essence: How Black Women Are Leading The Way On Bail Reform
9/22/17: Street Roots News: Children of imprisoned parents get Oregon bill of rights
9/21/17: The Marshall Project: Making Sense of Senseless Violence
9/20/17: The Nation: The Economic Costs of Domestic Violence
9/19/17: The Harvard Crimon: We Are Educators, Not Prosecutors
9/19/17: The Hill: Senators to reintroduce bipartisan criminal justice bill
9/17/17: The Marshall Project: Shawna: A Life on the Sex Offender Registry
9/15/17: Newsweek: In a First for the Nation, Portland Police End Gang List to Improve Relations with Blacks and Latinos
9/15/17: Witness LA: House Slams U.S. Attorney General on Civil Asset Forfeiture
9/15/17: The Crime Report: Can Alternatives to Money Bail Work?
9/15/17: Politico: Judge blocks Justice Department move against sanctuary cities
9/13/17: The Washington Post: Kushner to gather bipartisan group to come up with ideas for federal prisons
9/13/17: CNN: The one group we anandoned during the hurricanes
9/13/17: CNN: Sen. Booker on the necessity of the Dignity Act
9/12/17: The New York Times: When Junk Science About Sex Offenders Infects the Supreme Court
9/11/17: The Crime Report: Setting the Stage For Criminal Justice Reform
9/8/17: Oregon Live: Portland police to halt, purge all gang designations
9/6/17: Colorlines: Inside the Movement to Free People Who Are Only in Jail Because They Can't Afford Bail
9/5/17: The Crime Report: Cops and the Mentally Ill: Finding a New Approach
9/17: The Atlantic: Innocence is Irrelevant: This is the age of the plea bargain--and millions of Americans are suffering the consequences
8/31/17: The Crime Report: Risk Assessment: The Devil's in the Details
8/31/17: The Federalist: Drug War: Sorry, Jeff Sessions, But We're Just Not Experiencing A Violent Crime Wave
8/29/17: Witness LA: Report: How To Slash U.S. Probation Rolls by 50% Within 10 Years
8/28/17: The Marshall Project: When Less is More: How putting fewer people on probation and parole can reduce prison populations, save money and keep us safer
8/25/17: USA Today: America must do more to help familiy members of incarcerated
8/23/17: Bloomberg BNA: Tech Industry Could Aid Successful Prisoner Reentry
8/22/17: NBC News: Post Bail
8/22/17: Pew Charitable Trusts: 'Ban the Box' Laws May Be Harming Young Black Men Seeking Jobs
8/16/17: Reuters: Special probation for prisoners with mental illness cuts recidivism
8/15/17: Stanford Social Innovation Review: Cash for Leaving Prison: A New Solution to Recidivism?
8/17: Jacobin: How to End Mass Incarceration
8/17: Institute for Justice: Civil Forfeiture Reforms on the State-Level
8/15/17: Marketplace: Is it ever OK to ask children to translate for their parents in emergency situations?
8/15/16: The Crime Report: Report Urges Police Transparency on Forfeiture Funds
8/14/17: The Crime Report: Governors Face Up to Criminal Justice Reform
8/11/17: The New York Times: Trump Wants to Get Tough on Crime. Victims Don't Agree.
8/10/17: The Hill: Criminal justice reform starts with the prosecutor
8/10/17: The Atlantic: When Prisoners Are a 'Revenue Opportunity'
8/9/17: Brennan Center for Justice: What Ever Happened to Mass Incarceration Reform?
8/9/17: Pretrial Justice Institute: (Evidence-based, Actuarial Pretrial) Risk Assessment
8/7/17: Baltimore Magazine: Justice for All
8/3/17: Longreads: The War on Drugs Is a War on Women of Color
8/2/17: The Detroit News: Half of Detroit's 8 mayoral candidates are felons
8/2/17: AP: Teen criminals savor freedom as parole ends life sentences
7/25/17: The Crime Report: Life After Prison: The Invisible Barrier Can't Be Wished Away
7/20/17: San Francisco Chronicle: To be more just, communities must rethink parole and probation
7/20/17: The Crime Report: Want to Shrink Our Prisons? Fix Probation and Parole
7/20/17: The New York Times: Kamala Harris and Rand Paul: To Shrink Jails, Let's Reform Bail
7/19/17: motto: Jails Weren't Built for Women. Inmate Advocates Say That's a Big Problem
7/19/17: Vogue: In Washington, New Hope for Fixing America's Female Incarceration Problem
7/18/17: Mother Jones: Kamala Harris Went to Prison So Others Won't Have To
7/18/17: The Crime Report: Building Trust in Police: What Really Works?
7/17/17: Brennan Center for Justice: The Hidden Bearers of Mass Incarceration: Women
7/17/17: The Crime Report: The Nearly Perfect Recidivism Machine
7/16/17: The New York Times: She's His Rock. His Parole Officer Won't Let Him See Her.
7/15/17: EJI: New Bill Would Provide for Basic Human Needs of Incarcerated Women
7/13/17: Open Society Foundations: It's Time to Overhaul America's Broken Probation and Parole Systems
7/10/17: The Marshall Project: To Be Good Employees, the Formerly Incarcerated Must First Become Bosses
7/9/17: Huffpost: The Essential Role of Medicaid and Criminal Justice
7/7/17: ProPublica: ICE Officers Told to Take Action Against All Undocumented Immigrants Encountered While on Duty
7/4/17: Trib Live: Pennsylvania legislators mull contractor fee to help children of inmates
6/28/17: Brennan Center for Justice: Less Crime, Fewer Prisoners -- New Senate Bill Creates Incentives to Reduce Mass Incarceration
6/27/17: The Atlantic: The Lifelong Learning of Lifelong Inmates
6/26/17: Witness LA: What Is Causing The Mental Health Crisis Among Women In The Nation's Jails And Prisons?
6/23/17: Eater: Restaurants Can Be a Lifeline for the Formerly Incarcerated--and Vice Versa
6/22/17: The Marshall Project: The Mental Health Crisis Facing Women in Prison
6/21/17: The Marshall Project: A Federal Court Asks Jurors to Confront Their Hidden Biases
6/20/17: The Crime Report: Higher Imprisonment Rates Don't Curb Drug Abuse: Study
6/19/17: USA Today: When twisted justice stops prisoners from starting over
6/16/17: Time: Jay Z: For Father's Day, I'm Taking on the Exploitative Bail Industry
6/16/17: The New York Times: Addicts Need Help. Jails Could Have the Answer.
6/15/17: The Crime Report: Dear Dad: 'Why Weren't You There?'
6/15/17: Argus Leader: From prison to parenthood: One man's launch back into life
6/13/17: The New York Times: When a Computer Program Keeps You in Jail
5/31/17: Reveal: Private diversion programs are failing those who need help the most
5/30/17: Social Justice Solutions: Innovative Ways to Reduce Recidivism in Our Prisons
5/23/17: Wired: Zuckerberg-Backed Data Trove Exposes the Injustices of Criminal Justice
5/5/17: The New York Times: Locked Up for Being Poor
5/3/17: Justice Center: Congressional Leaders Agree on Bill Funding Key Justice Programs
5/1/17: The New York Times: Sent to Prison by a Software Program's Secret Algorithms
4/28/17: Refinery 29: My Father Spent 30 Years In Prison. Now He's Out.
4/26/17: The Pew Charitable Trusts: Doing Less Time: Some States Cut Back on Probation
4/24/17: The Washington Post: We're jailing way more people who've been convicted of exactly nothing
4/21/17: The New York Times: Spend a Dollar on Drug Treatment, and Save More on Crime Reduction
4/21/17: USA Today: The price of justice doesn't cover the bills: Column
4/20/17: The Guardian: Behind bars, beyond means: the crusing expense of loving someone in prison
4/18/17: The New York Times: States Can't Keep Criminal Fines of Exonerated, Supreme Court Rules
4/17/17: The Weekly Standard: Ex-Offenders Need Jobs, Not Handouts. But There Are Too Many Regulatory Barriers.
4/13/17: Prison Pollicy Initiative Updates: How much to incarcerated people earn in each state?
4/11/17: The New York Times: 'Locking Up Our Own,' What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men
4/7/17: Stateline: Getting the Mentally Ill Out of Jails
4/6/17: Drug Policy Alliance News: U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke Leads Bipartisan Bill that Repeals Federal Transportation Law Requiring States to Suspend Driver's Licenses for Drug Offenses
4/3/17: WitnessLA: Does Race Affect Plea Bargaining? A New Study Says YES
3/31/17: The Washington Post: How white America has created a colony of incarceration for people of color
3/28/17: LA Weekly: In Tijuana, the Recently Deported Are Trapped in Purgatory
3/27/17: NPR: College Classes In Maximum Security: "It Gives You Meaning'
3/17: Excon.com: ExconVersations with Taymullah Abdur-Rahman: A podcast about redemption
3/27/17: CBS News: Jeff Sessions calls on sanctuary cities to "enforce our immigration laws"
3/24/17: The Washington Post: Blame game: Trump casts immigrants as dangerous criminals, but the evidence shows otherwise
3/24/17: .mic: Formerly incarcerated artists can now apply to win a $20K arts fellowship
3/23/17: Los Angeles Times: 34 cities and counties urge a federal judge to block Trump's 'sanctuary cities' executive order
3/21/17: reason.com: First ICE Report on Police Who Won't Detain Immigrants Shows How Small the Problem Is
3/20/17: Pacific Standard: What's Propelling Second-Chance Legislation Across America?
3/17/17: Carceral Complex: Beyond the Bars: Arts and Humanities Education in Prison
3/17/17: Boston Review: How Immigrants Became Criminals
3/17/17: The Crime Report: Women Shortchanged by Justice Reforms: Report
3/16/17: Vice News: Abortion behind bars: Terminating a pregnancy in prison can be next to impossible
3/9/17: Boston Review: Who Do Sanctuary Cities Protect?
3/8/17: witnessLA: Report Shows Disproportionate Number of Black Defendants Are Wrongfully Convicted
3/8/17: The Washington Post: Senators seek to reform justice system nationwide by launching national Criminal Justice Commission
3/6/17: Vox: A very conservative Supreme Court justice seems ready to stop police from taking your stuff
3/6/17: Pacific Standard: Public Crime Registries Rarely Work, So Why Do They Continue to Grow?
3/6/17: The New York Times: Did the Supreme Court Base a Ruling on a Myth?
3/3/17: Prison Policy Initiative: Food for thought: Prison food is a public health problem
3/1/17: Stateline: Locked Up: Is Cash Bail on the Way Out?
2/27/17: The New York Times: Mental Illness, Untreated Behind Bars
2/24/17: The New York Times: Under Mr. Trump, Private Prisons Thrive Again
2/23/17: The New York Review of Books: Scholars Behind Bars
2/22/17: The Nation: This Building Was Once a Notorious Women's Prison. Now It's Becoming a Center for Feminist Organizing.
2/21/17: USA Today: Suspending driver's licenses creates a vicious cycle: Column
2/21/17: Mother Jones: The Private Prison Industry Is Licking Its Chops Over Trump's Deportation Plans
2/6/17: The Crime Report: How 'Collateral Consequences' Complicate Life After Prison
2/5/17: Mother Jones: Go to Jail. Die from Drug Withdrawal. Welcome to the Criminal Justice System.
1/27/17: The Outline: Why We Exclude Prisoners from the Unemployment Rate
1/25/17: The Week: The plunder of the American prison system
1/23/17: The Washington Post: Successful basketball coach with 15-year-old drug conviction challenges NCAA's 'No felons' rule
1/18/17: The Huffington Post: Notorious New York Prison Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged
1/10/17: The Huffington Post: Bail System Overdue for an Overhaul in America
1/9/17: Fast Company: What's Next for American Prisons And Criminal Justice Reform?
1/4/17: USA Today: Keep private industry out of risoner reform: Column
12/30/16: Pro Publica: Bias in Criminal Risk Scores Is Mathematically Inevitable, Researchers Say
12/30/16: Prison Policy Initiative: Another century of mass incarceration?
12/21/16: Talk Poverty: The Obama Legacy: Chipping Away at Mass Incarceration
12/20/16: The Marshall Project: Child Support Relief Coming for Incarcerated Parents
12/15/16: Times Record News: Study: Latinos are under-counted in criminal justice system
12/12/16: The New York Times: The Prosecutor's Deal, the Defendant's Dilemma
12/12/16: The New York Times: After a Crime, the Price of a Second Chance
12/16: NY Magazine: When Ex-cons Change Their Vocabulary, They Stay Out of Jail
12/9/16: The New York Times: Four Violent Crimes: You Decide the Sentence
12/6/16: The Crime Report: The 'Startling' Link Between Low Interest Rates and Low Crime
12/5/16: New York Daily News: Young casualties of our war on crime: How Trump & Sessions' approach to incarceration will hurt the children of inmates
12/5/16: reason.com: Two Federal Courts Call BS on Banning Sex Offenders from 'Child Safety Zones'
11/30/16: The Washington Post: The Justice Department just unveiled new prison reforms. But the Trump administration might scrap them.
11/29/16: BloombergBusinessweek: An Incubator for (Former) Drug Dealers
11/25/16: The New York Times: Mothers in Prison
11/25/16: The New York Times: For Women, a Cheaper, Better Alternative to Prison
11/20/16: nj.com: From Princeton to prison, in this jailhouse classroom everyone learns
11/17/16: U.S. Department of Education: Citing Prison Inmate Literacy Study, King Calls for More High-Quality Education Programs in Correctional Facilities
11/14/16: The Atlantic: When a Sibling Goes to Prison
11/13/16: The Washington Post: As a sheriff, I know that jail is not always the answer
11/16: Politico Magazine: What It's Like to Vote After Prison
11/4/16: Ars Technica: Court blocks FCC attempt to cap prison phone rates
10/10/16: Slate: Extended Sentence
10/9/16: Tech.Mic: (Exclusive) Crime-prediction tool PredPol amplifies racially biased policing, study shows
10/6/16: Slate: New Slaves
10/6/16: The New York Times: Why 10% of Florida Adults Can't Vote: How Felony Convictions Affect Access to the Ballot
10/5/16: The Hill: The rich bail out and the poor get prison
10/5/16: The Marshall Project: Making the Case Against Banishing Sex Offenders
10/4/16: Counterpunch: None Dare Call It Justice: Eighteen Examples of Racism in Criminal Legal System
10/2/16: The Marshall Project: How Can a Criminal Record Haunt You for the Rest of Your Life?
9/29/16: The New York Times: A Virtual Visit to a Relative in Jail
9/28/16: The Washington Post: A former criminal turned his life around and now takes incredible photos
9/27/16: The New York Times: The Exoneree Band Is Free to Rock, and Rightly So
9/26/16: Slate: The Trailer for Ava DuVernay's Netflix Documentary Promises a Damning Look at Mass Incarceration
9/26/16: The Nation: These Women Are Demanding a Voice in the Criminal Justice Conversation
9/23/16: The Hill: Some congressional failures are successes in disguise
9/22/16: Pacific Standard: The Worst Place to Die
9/21/16: The Crime Report: Finding Common Cause: Victims and the Movement to Reduce Incarceration
9/16: Takepart: Violence and Redemption: The only way to tackle mass incarceration is to address the issue of those convicted of violent offenses
9/16/16: The New York Times: Why the Senate Couldn't Pass a Crime Bill Both Parties Backed
9/16: Takepart: Rehabilitating Violent Offenders Is Possible. Why Aren't We Doing It?
9/2/16: The New York Times: This small Inidiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco and Durham, N.D., combined. Why?
8/31/16: McClatchy: This may be one reason so many federal prisoners end up back in jail
8/30/16: The Huffington Post: Crime Survivors Are Organizing. They Want Criminal Justice Reform, Too.
8/29/16: The New Yorker: Learning From the Slaughter in Attica
8/23/16: The Marshall Project: Bail Reformers Aren't Waiting for Bail Reform
8/23/16: The Nation: Private Prison Companies Are Embracing Alternatives to Incarceration
8/23/16: Moyers & Company: What You Need to Know About the Private Prison Phase-Out
8/22/16: The Nation: Why Are There So Many Women in Jail?
8/19/16: The Huffington Post: Obama Justice Department Joins the Fight Against America's Bail Industry
8/18/16: The Marshall Project: Crime in Context
8/18/16: Bloomberg: Private Prison Stocks Sink After U.S. Signals the End
8/17/16: the guardian: Never mind a second chance. Our incarcerated women need a first one
8/17/16: The New York Times: Number of Women in Jail Has Grown Far Faster Than That of Men, Study Says
8/16/16: The Washington Post: Black incarceration hasn't been this low in a generation
8/16/16: The Verge: Criminal Charges: Prison Phones are a predatory monopoly. One family fought back--and won.
8/1/16: The New Yorker: The Link Between Money and Aggressive Policing
8/11/16: The New York Times: Eric Holder: We Can Have Shorter Sentences and Less Crime
8/11/16: The Atlantic: The Elusiveness of an Official ID After Prison
8/10/16: The New York Times: Here's How Racial Bias Plays Out in Policing
8/9/16: The Crime Report: 'The Worst Way to Address Mental Illness'
8/5/16: Vox: The tyranny of a traffic ticket
8/4/16: National Geographic: Aging Inmates: Photographer Shines Light on Loneliness and Isolation
8/2/16: The New York Times: Barriers to Reforming Police Practices
7/31/16: Boston Globe: Robert Spangenberg, 83; founded Boston Legal Assistance Project
7/30/16: The New York Times: Punishment That Doesn't Fit the Crime
7/25/16: The Hill: Marking kids for life on sex offender registries
7/22/16: the guardian: Want police reform? Charge rich people more for speeding tickets
7/21/16: Pacific Standard: How Prisons Overtook Schools as the Foremost American Institutions
7/20/16: The Atlantic: Can Training Programs Help Improve Police-Community Relations?
7/19/16: Pretrial Justice Institute: Pretrial Supervision, Like Detention, Should Be Carefully Limited
7/18/16: Bloomberg Law: A Defender Office for Suppreme Court Advocacy?
7/18/16; The Atlantic: Mass Incarceration Is Making Infectious Diseases Worse
7/15/16: The New York Times: The Wrong Way to Count Prisoners
7/13/16: The New York Times: Senate Approves Bill to Combat Opioid Addiction Crisis
7/12/16: The Huffington Post: How We Fund Our Criminal Justice System
7/11/16: Talk Poverty: The Next Step for Organized Labor? People in Prison
7/8/16: The Washington Post: One year out
7/8/16: The Atlantic: Is America Repeating the Mistakes of 1968?
7/7/16: Vera Institute of Justice: The importance of education for incarcerated women
7/6/16: KQED News: How Mass Incarceration Shapes the Lives of Black Women
7/1/16: Identities.Mic: 15 Things Your City Can Do Right Now to End Police Brutality
6/30/16: The Atlantic: The White House Has a New Data-Driven Criminal-Justice Project
6/27/16: Justice Center: SCA Grantee Discovers New Way of Policing by Asking Women Involved with the Justice System 'What If?'
6/25/16: The New York Times: In Search of the Felon-Friendly Workplace
6/16: Politico Magazine: Why Prisoners Deserve the Right to Vote
6/22/16: PJI Pretrial Justice Institute: Let Unconvicted Men Be Fathers
6/21/16: The New York Times: A Home After Prison
6/21/16: Reason.com: Unfounded Fears of Pedophile Rings, Stranger Danger, and Satanists
6/16/16: Prison Policy Initiative: States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2016
6/2/16: The Atlantic: How Prison Debt Ensares Offenders
6/1/16: The New York Times: Rich Defendants' Request to Judges: Lock Me Up in a Gilded Cage
5/31/16: Justice Center: Risk and Needs Assessment and Race in the Criminal Justice System
5/27/16: The New York Times: 'From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime,' by Elizabeth Hinton
5/26/16: The New York Review of Books: Our Awful Prisons: How They Can Be Changed
5/24/16: The Establishment: Inside The Fight To Protect Face-To-Face Visitation For Prisoners
5/24/16: Pew Charitable Trusts: Having a Parent Behind Bars Costs Children, States
5/24/16: The Marshall Project: For Some Prisoners, Finishing Their Sentences Doesn't Mean They Get Out
5/23/16: Prison Policy Initiative: Have we gone too far myth busting criminal justice reform? Drug policy is still important
5/23/16: ProPublica: Machine Bias: There's software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it's biased against blacks.
5/18/16: The Washington Post: The myth that fewer people are going to prison
5/16/16: Bloomberg: Get Out of Jail, Now Pay Up: Your Fines Are Waiting
5/16/16: The Week: The grotesque criminalization of poverty in America
5/16/16: The Daily Signal: Is It Time for Criminal Justice Reform? 2 Law Enforcement Groups Are at Odds
5/13/16: Huffpost Politics: Why We Can't Afford to Wait for Federal Sentencing Reform
5/12/16: The Influence: The New York Times' Coverage of Prince's Death Feeds Our Opioid Myth
5/12/16: Roll Call: Sentencing Reform' is Seriously Stuck
5/16: The Verge: Criminal Charges: Prison phones are a predatory monopoly. One family fought back--and won.
5/11/16: Urban Institute: Banning the box might increase racial dicrimination
5/10/16: The National Book Review: Review: Was 1960's Liberalism the Cause of Today's Overincarceration Crisis?
5/10/16: Fortune Society: Ban the Box: Does it work?
5/9/16: The New Yorker: The Rehabilitation Paradox
5/9/16: The New York Times: How to Keep the Mentally Ill From Getting Behind Bars
5/9/16: The New York Times: U.S. Urges Colleges to Rethink Questions About Criminal Records
5/8/16: Simple Justice: Person Who Was Convicted Of A Felony (Formerly Known As Felon)
5/8/16: The Daily Beast: Why Drug Rehab Is Outdated, Expensive, and Deadly
5/8/16: The Washington Post: How videos of police shooting unarmed black men changes those who watch them
5/7/16: The New York Times: Labels Like 'Felon' Are an Unfair Life Sentence
5/6/16: The Pew Charitable Trusts: Despite Concerns, Sex Offenders Face New Restrictions
5/5/16: Los Angeles Times: 'You Want a Description of Hell?' Oxycontin's 12-Hour Problem
5/5/16: Rolling Stone: Why America Can't Quit the Drug War
5/5/16: The New York Times Magazine: Should Prostitution Be a Crime?
5/4/16: The Washington Post: Guest Post: Justice Dept. agency to alter its terminology for released convicts, to ease reentry
5/16: Jacobin: What It Means to Believe Prisoners
5/2/16: The Marshall Project: Do Public Defenders Spend Less Time on Black Clients?
4/16: Slate: America's Cash Bail System Is a Disgrace
4/28/16: The Atlantic: What Can the U.S. Do About Mass Incarceration?
4/28/16: Buzz Feed News: White House Moves To "Ban The Box" For Many Federal Job Seekers
4/27/16: The Marshall Project: The Other F-word: What we call the imprisoned matters
4/27/16: Justice Center: Conservatives, White House Agree: U.S. Criminal Justice System Does Not Pay Off
4/27/16: Justice Center: U.S. Attorney General Lynch Emphasizes Access to IDs for People Leaving Prisons in #Reentry Week Announcement
4/26/16: The Crime Report: Finding The Way Home: The Challenge of Reentry
4/26/16: Pretrial Justice Institute: To Better Address Reentry, Restrict Entry
4/25/16: Cato Institute: Economic Perspectives on the Criminal Justice System
4/25/16: The Christian Science Monitor: Parents in prison: How to help US children?
4/25/16: Philadelphia Inquirer: US to states: Make it easier for ex-prisoners to obtain IDs
4/25/16: The Washington Post: Obama's advisers just revealed an unconventional solution to mass incarceration
4/23/16: CBS News: Obama previews new criminal justice reforms on prisoner re-entry
4/22/16: NPR: Do Felons Make Good Employees?
4/21/16: The Crime Report: Adovcates and Police Say Children Witnessing a Parent's Arrest Need 'Empathy'
4/21/16: The New York Times: Why Mass Incarceration Doesn't Pay
4/20/16: The Guardian: Prison visits helped prepare me for life after release. Why are they under threat?
4/19/16: New Republic: Bedtime Stories About Jail
4/19/16: The Crime Report: A Summit On The Mentally Ill in U.S. Jails
4/19/16: The Crime Report: Law Enforcement, Drugs and the 'Public Health' Approach
4/18/16: New Republic: Another Clinton-Era Law that Needs to Be Repealed
4/13/16: The New York Times: Ban the Box Keeps Families and Community Together
4/13/16: Vice: Why Sex Criminals Get Locked Up Forever
4/12/16: NBC News: Starbucks, Google, Others Sign on to Obama Job Effort for Ex-Inmates
4/12/16: Cato Institute: Merle Haggard Could So Easily Have Died in San Quentin
4/12/16: The Atlantic: The Dangerous Domino Effect of Not Making Bail
4/12/16: The New York Times: Debate Over Prison Population Turns to the States
4/11/16: Vox: The real reason mass incarceration happened
4/11/16: Counterpunch: Are Sex Offenders White?
4/11/16: Vox: Prison is horrifying. For transgender people, it's hell.
4/10/16: The Root: There is No Justice Without Ending Money Bail
4/10/16: The Atlantic: Teaching Neuroscience in Prison
4/8/16: Frontline: How States Are Moving to Police Bad Cops
4/7/16: The New York Review of Books: Caught in the Act
4/7/16: The Atlantic: Facial-Recognition Software Might Have a Racial Bias Problem
4/7/16: The Washington Post: Study finds police fatally shoot unarmed black men at disproportionate rates
4/7/16: The Root: Instagram Project Vividly Captures the Human Toll of Mass Incarceration
4/6/16: Gallup: In U.S., Concern About Crime Climbs to 15-Year High
4/5/16: The Washington Post: Jurors need to take the law into their own hands
4/5/16: truthout: Discrimination in Parole Hearings Keeps Trans Prisoners Behind Bars, Advocates Say
4/4/16: Elle: Exclusive: Beyonce Wants to Change the Conversation
4/4/16: ThinkProgress: Racist Jurors Are Hidden From The Public. This SCOTUS Case Could Change That.
4/4/16: NPR: Denying Housing Over Criminal Record May Be Discrimination, Feds Say
4/4/16: The Atlantic: How Drug Warriors Helped to Fuel the Opioid Epidemic
4/2/16: Huffpost Crime: What We Can Learn From German Prisons
4/1/16: Governing: A Policy Shift That Can Reduce Incarceration as Well as Crime
4/1/16: The Daily Beast: Justice Department Restarts Program That Allows Cops to Seize Assets From The Poor
4/1/16: Ebony: How Reality TV Tackles the Issue of Black Incarceration
4/1/16: ABA Journal: Court systems rethink the use of financial bail, which some say penalizes the poor
3/31/16: reason.com: How Decades-Old Drug Offenses Kept Two Elected Officials Out of Office
3/31/16: The Washington Post: Why is the American government ignoring 23 million of its citizens?
3/16: the influence: The Worst Place to Die: How Jail Practices Are Killing People Going Through Opioid Withdrawals
3/30/16: The Atlantic: A Near-Epiphany at the Supreme Court
3/30/16: International Business Times: How Prison Phone Calls Became A Tax On The Poor
3/30/16: The New York Times: Supreme Court Rules Against Freezing Assets Not Tied to Crimes
3/25/16: The Sentinel: Closer look: Finding statistics to fit a narrative
3/24/16: The Guardian: US prohibits imprisoning transgender inmates in cells based on birth anatomy
3/23/16: The Marshall Project: The Tricky Business of Measuring Crime and Punishment
3/23/16: The Washington Post: Poor white kids are less likely to go to prison than rich black kids
3/23/16: Justice Center: At Forum, Correctional Leaders and Practitioners Discuss Strategies for Reducing Recidivism Statewide
3/22/16: Boston Review: The Roots of Black Incarceration
3/22/16: The Crime Report: Sentencing the Crime, Not the Person
3/22/16: The Hill: How Washington can help end mass incarceration
3/21/16: Justice Center: National Reentry Week: An Essential Part of Our Mission
3/21/16: Guernica: Hyatt Bass: Lessons from Cuba's Incarceration Model
3/21/16: The New York Times: The Prison-Commercial Complex
3/21/16: the influence: GNC and 7-Eleven Are Breaking a Law Meant to Give Ex-Prisoners a Fair Chance of a Job
3/21/16: The Crime Report: A Life (Without Parole) Story
3/19/16: Buzzfeed News: Addicts for Sale
3/18/16: ars technica: Prison phone comany says ratecaps will make inmates angry and dangerous
3/17/16: NPR: The 'Criminal' Black Lesbian: Where Does This Damaging Stereotype Come From?
3/17/16: Stateline: Elderly Inmates Burden State Prisons
3/16/16: The Washington Post: Sentencing reform alone won't fix crime and punishment in America
3/15/16: The Atlantic: The Black Girl Pushout
3/14/16: Mother Jones: Tennessee's War on Women Is Sending New Mothers to Jail
3/14/16: The New York Times: Justice Dept. Condemns Profit-Minded Court Policies Targeting the Poor
3/14/16: The New Yorker: The List: When juveniles are found guilty of sexual misconduct, the sex-offender registry can be a life sentence
3/10/16: The Crime Report: The Danger of TV Crimes Shows
3/10/16: The New York Times: Senate Passes Broad Bill to Combat Drug Abuse
3/9/16: FiveThirtyEight: We Now Have Algorithms to Predict Police Misconduct
3/9/16: The Atlantic: Polls for Prisons
3/9/16: Politico: Stop the treatment industrial complex
3/7/16: The Hill: Court temporarily blocks price cap on prison calls
3/6/16: The Atlantic: My Brother's Keeper
3/4/16: Medium: Inside the Florida Jail that Doubles as an Exotic Animal Zoo
3/4/16: Per Charitable Trusts: American Indian Girls Often Fall Through the Cracks
3/4/16: The New York Times: Review: Memoirs from Two Eras Testify to Prison's Corrosive Effect
3/2/16: The New York Times: Making Policing Safer for Everyone
3/2/16: Pretrial Justice Institute: Pending Federal Legislation Encourages Jurisdictions to Eliminate Money Bail
3/1/16: Vox: How America's criminal justice system became the country's mental health system
3/1/16: U.S. News & World Report: Goal is Justice -- Reality is Unfairness
3/1/16: Vox: How America's criminal justice system became the country's mental health system
3/16: The Human Toll of Jail: The Jail Without Bars
2/29/16: The Hill: Federal sentencing reform will aid law enforcement
2/28/16: Medium.com: A New Agenda for Criminal Justice
2/26/16: The Crime Report: A 'Draconian' System Where the Innocent Plead Guilty
2/25/16: Think Progress: Congresswoman Asks Why Drug Tests Are Only Being Considered For Food Stamp Recipients, Not Farmers
2/24/16: The Week: Jailed for being homeless
2/24/16: The Crime Report: Does Smarter Sentencing Equal Lower Prison Numbers?
2/23/16: Vox Policy & Politics: 5 ways LGBTQ people fall into the criminal justice system -- and suffer the worst once in
2/22/16: The Wall Street Journal: The Myth of Mass Incarceration
2/22/16: Boston Review: Going Nowhere: A new law needlessly brands sex offenders' passports
2/19/16: Huffpost Politics: What Humans of New York Got Right About Federal Prison - and What it Left Out
2/18/16: The Marshall Project: I Married a Sex Offender
2/18/16: In These Times: We're Rethinking Prisons. Is It Time to Rethink Sex Offender Registries?
2/18/16: USA Today: Soft on crime turns out to be smart on crime: Column
2/16: Pretrial Institute: Bail in America: The Color of Pretrial Detention
2/16/16: The Week: President Bernie Sanders couldn't stop mass incarceration by himself. But this one reform would be a very good start.
2/13/16: Brookings: Criminal justice reform: the facts about federal drug offenders
2/13/16: Aljazeer America: How criminal justice reform fails incarcerated women
2/11/16: The Marshall Project: "Look at O.J. ... If He Had a Public Defender, He'd be in Jail:" Why African-American don't trust the courts, and why it matters.
2/10/16: The Washington Post: There's been a big decline in the black incarceration rate, and almost nobody's paying attention
2/10/16: The Crime Report: Obama Wants $500 Million to Prod State Justice Reforms
2/10/16: Hill: Gun politics stymie mental health push
2/10/16: reason.com: Lawsuit Says 'Scarlet Letter' Passports for Sex Offenders Are Unconstitutional
2/9/16: Slate: Obama Just Signed a Really Bad Criminal Justice Law
2/9/16: The New Yorker: From Drug Dealer to Long-Distance Record-Setter: Kevin Castille's Redemption
2/9/16: Brennan Center for Justice: Maryland Takes Big Step Forward on Voting Rights
2/9/16: The Hill: Senators locked in negotiations over criminal justice reform
2/9/16: The Baltimore Sun: Released felons gain right to vote in Maryland after veto override
2/8/16: Sante Fe New Mexican: Officials: Prisons cutting visits as staffing crisis persists
2/8/16: The Crime Report: The Rise of the Crime Beat 'News Nerds'
2/8/16: nj.com: Obama signs International Megan's Law
2/8/16: Politico: Authors pitch changes to criminal justice bill
2/5/16: Denver Post: Denver sheriff giving heroin antidote to addicted inmates leaving jail
2/4/16: The Crime Report: Police Chiefs Send the Right Signals on Use-of-Force
2/2/16: Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: New Data Brief: American Exceptionalism in Probation Supervision
2/2/16: reason.com: Obama Could Still Stop 'Megan's Law' From Making Sex Offenders Get Special Passports
2/2/16: Colorado Public Radio: Bill To 'Ban The Box,' Aimed At Helping Former Criminals Find Jobs, Is No Sure Bet
2/2/16: Time: Obama Seeks $1 Billion to Fight Heroin Epidemic
2/2/16: The Marshall Project: Congress Acts to Mark Passports of Sex Offenders
2/1/16: With Justice for All: This is how to pass a bill with no facts to support it
2/1/16: Vera Institute of Justice: New Report Helps Policmakers Better Respond to People with Mental Health Needs in the Criminal Justice System
2/16: Scholastic Choices: My Dad Is in Prison
1/27/16: The Marshall Project: Why Some Young Sex Offenders Are Held Indefinitely
1/26/16: International Business Times: Amid Death Threats, An Embattled Prison Phone Company CEO Speaks Out
1/26/16: KQED: Federal Task Force Recommends Reducing Number of Inmates by 60,000 in 10 Years
1/26/16: The Washington Post: Obama bans solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons
1/25/16: Esquire: Why Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Was Always a Pipe Dream
1/25/16: The New York Times: Justices Expand Parole Rights for Juveniles Sentenced to Life for Murder
1/25/16: The Washington Post: Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement
1/21/16: Pew Charitable Trusts: State Prisons Turn to Telemedicine to Improve Health and Save Money
1/16: Change.org: Vote Against HR 515
1/20/16: The Washington Post: Americans are bargaining away their innocence
1/20/16: Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting: Inside Kentudky's Unregulated Private Probation Industry
1/19/16: Think Progress: Remember When Obama Released 6,000 Federal Prisoners? Here's How One is Doing Now
1/17/16: Free-Range Kids: Kids as Young as 9 Are on the Sex Offender Registry...for Life
1/13/16: Al Jazeera America: Can a new victims advocacy movement break cycles of violence?
1/13/16: Seattle Times: Kudos for Seattle police, but work remains
1/13/16: Think Progress: Private Probation Companies Have Created A Two-Tiered Justice System. This Congressman Is Fighting Back.
1/13/16: The New York Times: Where Police Violence Encounters Mental Illness
1/13/16: Chicago Reporter: A community solution to cash bail
January 2016: Pew Charitable Trusts: More Prison, Less Probation for Federal Offenders
1/10/16: The Columbia Dispatch: Ohio seeks to stem spike of women in prison
1/9/16: BuzzFeed News: Meet the Ex-Convict President Obama Will Host At The State Of The Union
1/8/16: Prison Legal News: Are We There Yet? The Promise, Perils and Politics of Penal Reform
1/7/16: Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: Sheboygan County sheriff defends hiring of convicted killer
1/6/16: New York Post: Labeling sex offenders' passports is overkill
1/6/16: Solitary Watch: With Sons in Solitary, Mothers Fight for Their Freedom--and Their Lives
1/5/16: GoLocalPDX: Oregon Spends Nearly Four Times More on Incarceration than Higher Education
1/4/16: Care2: Bounty Hunters: The Other Abuse-Prone Law Enforcement Group
1/1/16: Yahoo News: When a prison closes, wht happens to the prison town?
Winter 2016: Democracy: A 20-Year Maximum for Prison Sentences
12/31/15: The Economist: Bailing on the constitution
12/30/15: The Intercept: America's Incarcerated Population, Largest in World, Grew Even More Last Year
12/29/15: The Marshall Project: Watch Alvin Ailey Dancers Rehearse a Piece About Being Locked Up
12/28/15: Huffington Post: Criminal Justice Reform in 2015: Year End Review
12/27/15: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia aims to do even more to help inmates re-enter society
12/24/15: The Atlantic: A Home for Unlikely Neighbors
12/23/15: The Crime Report: The Civil Rights Issue of our Time
12/22/15: Miami Herald: Broward prosecutor: BSO's probation plan jeopardizes safety, victims' rights
12/22/15: The New York Times: A Step Forward for Juvenile Offenders
12/21/15: The Washington Post: Total Wine co-founder funding $15 million push to aid ex-convicts
12/21/15: The Atlantic: A New Investment Opportunity: Helping Ex-Convicts
12/21/15: National Journal: The Price of Justice: The fees and fines the White House says are crippling the criminal-justice system
12/20/15: The New York Times: Cuomo Moves to Pardon Former Youthful Offenders
12/17/15: The Oregonian: Who is a sex offender?
12/16/15: Safety & Justice Challenge: Decision Points: Reporting on Caseflow Affects Pretrial Jail Populations
12/16/15: Justice News: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Delivers Remarks at Second Chance Act - Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program National Conference
12/15/15: National Journal: Why Children With Parents in Prison Are Especially Burdened
1214/15: Takepart: One Street in Minnesota Separates Radically Different Policing Strategies
12/13/15: PBS Newshour: Interactive map: Number of U.S. cities criminalizing homelessness doubles
12/11/15: The Marshall Project: How a Stranger Helped One Man Rebuild His Life After Prison
12/10/15: Center for American Progress: Infographic: Criminal Records Area a Family Sentence
12/8/15: Boston Review: The Online-Sex Predator Panic
12/8/15: Prison Policy Initiative: Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2015
12/8/15: The New York Times: Decriminalizing Drugs: When Treatment Replaces Prison
12/7/15: The Daily Signal: Finally Home, but to What? After Obama Grants Him Clemency, a Federal Prisoner Rebuilds Life
12/15: Longreads: The Art of Escape
12/5/15: Providence Journal: People of Color Sent to Prison, Put on Probation Far More Than Whites
12/4/15: ABC News: Column: To Be Poor, Black and Jailed
12/3/15: The Crime Report: One Day At a Time
12/2/15: The Nation: 2.7 Million Kids have Parents in Prison. They’re Losing their Right to Visit
12/2/15: TPM: Criminal Justice Reform Is Quickly Running Out of Time
11/25/15: National Journal: The Gaping Hole in the Prison Early Release Program: Mental Health Care
11/23/15: The Guardian: Returning to a real home: former inmates get second chance in public housing
11/18/15: The Hill: Sentencing reform bill advances in House
11/18/15: The Marshall Project: Our Prisons in Black and White
11/5/15: KQED News: Behind Bars, Vets with PTSD Face A New War Zone, With Little Support
11/2/15: The White House: FACT SHEET: President Obama Announces New Actions to Promote Rehabilitation and Reintegration for the Formerly-Incarcerated
10/30/15: The Marshall Project: 6,000 People are About to be Released from Federal Custody -- Here's What They'll Face
10/22/15: The Marshall Project: Obama Defends Black Lives Matter in Conversation on Criminal Justice
10/22/15: FCC Documents: FCC Takes Next Big Steps in Reducing Inmate Calling Rates
10/21/15: Brennan Center for Justice: 130 Top Police Chiefs and Prosecutors Urge End to Mass Incarceration
10/20/15: Social Justice Solutions: Child Support Laws Crippling Poor Fathers
10/20/15: The New York Times: Police Leaders Join Call to Cut Prison Rosters
10/16/15: International Business Times: Report: Prisons Are Bad, but Electronic Monitoring Is Not the Answer
10/16/15: Inside Philanthropy: In a Major Grant, More Evidence That Prison Education Programs Are Gaining Steam
10/15/15: The Marshall Project: New York City's Big Idea on Bail
10/12/15: Time: John Legend: We Must Help Former Prisoners Get Jobs
10/8/15: Huff Post Crime: The Pariahs of America: Reforming Sex Offender Laws
10/6/15: Washington Post: Justice Department set to free 6,000 prisoners, largest one-time release
10/1/15: Council of State Governments: Individuals with Criminal Records Could Receive 'Fair Chance' at Employment with New Legislation
10/15: Governing: The Changing Relationship Between Ex-Criminals and Their Parole Officers
9/30/15: The New York Times: High Cost of Inmates' Phone Calls May End
9/29/15: The Atlantic: How Treatment Courts Can Reduce Crime
9/28/15: Brennan Center for Justice: The President in Prison
9/23/15: The New York Times Editorial: Handcuffed While Pregnant
9/18/15: Governing: Treating the Infectious Disease of Violent Crime
9/15/15: The Guardian: Women bear emotional and financial burden of incarceration, study finds
9/15/15: The New York Times: Report Details Economic Hardships for Inmate Families
9/11/15: Council of State Governments Justice Center: Five ThirtyEight: Scare Headlines Exaggerated the U.S. Crime Wave
9/7/15: The Weekly Standard: A Senseless Policy: Take kids off the sex offender registries
9/6/15: The Atlantic: The Trouble with Kate's Law
9/5/15: The New York Times: The Collateral Victims of Criminal Justice
9/4/15: Ozy: The Prison-Dorm Continuum
9/3/15: Pacific Standard: The Criminal Justice Conflict
9/3/15: Pacific Standard: Punished for Being Poor
9/3/15: Prison Policy Initiative: Mass incarceration and the presidential candidates
8/31/15: The Daily Signal: Bipartisan Group of Senators Set to Announce Deal to Reduce Prison Population
8/30/15: Vox Policy & Politics: The simple truth about why mass incarceration happened
8/27/15: Pew Charitable Trust: Federal Drug Sentencing Laws Bring High Cost, Low Return
8/20/15: Washington Post: How a dubious statistic convinced U.S. courts to approve of indefinite detention
7/2015: SOMAP Research Brief: Recidivism of Adult Sexual Offenders
The Hill: Change our priorities and make justice meaningful again
Huffington Post: Second Chances Vital to Criminal Justice Reform
U.S. Department of Education: Reentry Education Model Implementation Study: Promoting Reentry Success Through Continuity of Educational Opportunities
Center for Poverty Research: Reducing the Effects of Incarceration on Children and Families
Harvard Public Health Review: Why Public Health Practitioners Should Care About Job Prospects for People with Criminal Convictions: Employment Challenges and Successful Prison and Jail Reentry
The New York Times: Exclusion of Blacks from Juries Raises Renewed Scrutiny
The Nation: Prison Education Reduces Recidivism by Over 40 Percent. Why Aren't We Funding More of It?
Real Clear Markets: How Hospitals Could Help Reduce Prison Recidivism
The Trace: How One Hospital is Trying to Curb Gun Violence By Treating It Like Substance Abuse
The New York Times: The Bail Trap
Urban Institute: Reducing Mass Incarceration Requires Far-Reaching Reforms
Truthout: Free Her: Formerly Incarcerated Women Build a National Network
United States Sentencing Commission: Report on the Impact of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
USA Today: To cut crime, turn jailbirds into bookworms: Loretta Lynch and Arne Duncan
The New Yorker: Prison Revolt: A former law-and-order conservative takes a lead on criminal-justice reform
The Huffington Post: Smarter Sentencing Act
The Atlantic: The Moment for Criminal-Justice Reform?
Washington Post: With one decision, Obama and Lynch could reshape the criminal justice system
The New York Times: Probation May Sound Light, but Punishments Can Land Hard
The Atlantic: The Tricky Politics of Educating Prisoners
Pew Charitable Trusts: States Rethink Restrictions on Food Stamps, Welfare for Drug Felons
U.S. Department of Education: U.S. Department of Education Launches Second Chance Pell Pilot Program for Incarcerated Individuals
The New York Times: Putting Fewer Innocents Behind Bars
The New York Times: A Psychologist as Warden? Jail and Mental Illness Intersect in Chicago
Sentencing Law and Policy: Making the Case that Sentencing Reform Should (and Must) Include "Violent" Offenders
Susan Sered: Thinking Outside the Cell: Concrete Suggestions for Positive Change
White House Blog: "America is a Nation of Second Chances"
TedX: No Place for Kids
Democracy Now!: Strange Bedfellows: Why Are the Koch Brothers & Van Jones Teaming Up to End Mass Incarceration?
New Orleans Advocate: Angola Second Chance Program
USA Today: Obama's Clemency Grant Largest since 1960's
The Justice Center: Three Core Elements of Programs that Reduce Recidivism: Who, What, and How Well
TEDTalk: Johann Hari: Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong
Prison Policy Initiative: The Racial Geography of Mass Incarceration
The Atlantic: Prison Born
The Guardian: The simple idea that could transform US criminal justice
The Economist: Jailhouse Nation
Pew Charitable Trusts: Linking Released Inmates to Health Care
The Marshall Project: From Solitary to the Street
Communities & Banking: Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Problem with Money Bail
The Justice Center: Launch of National Initiative Offers Counties Research Based Support to Address Growing Mental Health Crisis in Jails
Du Bois Review: Racial Inequalities in Connectedness to Imprisoned Individuals in the United States
The Atlantic: Justice Kennedy Denounces Solitary Confinement
The Crime Report: Breaking the Mental Health Pipeline to Jail
ABA Journal: These JD-Carrying Exonerees are using their Experiences to Right Wrongs
The Cabinet Report: $50m in Anti-Truancy Funding Likely
Slate: Prison Reform: Releasing Only Nonviolent Offenders Won't Get You Very Far
Northwestern Law: The Returning Prisoner and the Future
Vice News: Incarcerating the Mentally Ill Makes Us All Less Safe
The Huffington Post: Restoring Dignity to Criminal Justice
The Justice Center: Integrated Reentry and Employment Strategies: Reducing Recidivism and Promoting Job Readiness
Corrections.com: What Works in Corrections: Retooling Offender Reentry
Department of Justice: Evidence-Based Practice to Reduce Recidivism: Implications for State Judiciaries
The Opportunity Survey: Criminal Justice Findings
New York Times: You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What?
The Guardian: 'No One Starts with a Needle in Their Arm': A police Chief Fights Drugs with Empathy
Slate: He Killed Her Daughter. She Forgave Him.
The Herald Sun: New Food Truck also Reentry Program for Ex-Cons
Huff Post Books: Mass Incarceration's Invisible Casualties: Women and The Criminal Justice System
The New Yorker: The Milwaukee Experiment
Governing: Getting Out of Jail and Back to Work in 'Second Chance City'
NPR: The Bus Station
The Washington Post: With a Song in Prisoner' Hearts
NPR: How Driver's License Suspensions Unfairly Target the Poor
NPR: I Am Not an Inmate...I Am a Man. And I Have Potential