In August 2020, Daniel Martin exited through the front doors of the Cordova Center, a residential reentry center (RRC) in Anchorage,...

Amy Remensnyder is a Professor of History at Brown University. She specializes in the High Middle Ages and is the author of Remembering...

In this installment of our criminal justice reform series, we meet Sharon Dolovich, Professor of law and Director of the UCLA Prison Law...

Rachel A. Pickens is a civil-rights attorney who graduated college from Boston University and received her law degree from Loyola...

There is a growing consensus across the country — and across the aisle — that the US is in desperate need of criminal justice reform to...

On September 11, 2015, 75-year-old Lee Carroll Brooker, a disabled war veteran with chronic pain, received the news he had been dreading...

Jennicet Gutiérrez is a transgender Latina activist and organizer with Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement. She gained national...

On July 31, 2009, American journalist Sarah Shourd was hiking in Northern Iraq with friends when she was captured by Iranian soldiers and...

On the night of February 11, the Topo Chico prison turned into a living inferno. An extremely violent riot broke out in the penal...

James Monteiro was a normal kid. He liked building forts out of old wood and going on bike rides. His favorite cereal was Sugar Smacks....

This past summer, President Barack Obama ventured into new political territory with his visit to the El Reno prison in Oklahoma, which...

It’s been a little over a year since Rhode Island’s “Ban the Box” law went into effect, making it the sixth state in the country to...

The prison-industrial complex (PIC), as defined by Critical Resistance, refers to the vast networks of institutions and systems that...

It’s no secret that the United States has a prison problem: astronomically large incarcerated populations, soaring recidivism rates, a...

This is my sixtieth column for BPR, and probably my last (though feel free to start the Brett Favre “will he or won’t he?” unretirement...

By Yidi Wu Seven months after the Sandy Hook shootings in Newtown, CT, Obama encouraged citizens to speak up – not just about gun...