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Officials at Danville Correctional Center had removed some 200 books from a prison library and banned for use in the education program “several classic books of African American history"

The California Institution for Men is an important reminder that the U.S. practiced in the past what prison reformers admire as humanistic punishment elsewhere.

Inmates and visitors who have lost loved ones to murder meet inside a Los Angeles prison to talk about healing and justice

In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.

The 2020 Democratic campaign is already shaping up to be a battle of big ideas. But when it comes to reforming our criminal legal system, the conversation hasn’t been as visionary — in fact, it’s been almost exclusively backward looking.

The technology also allows authorities to mine call databases and cross-reference the voices of individuals prisoners have spoken with.

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Poor People's Campaign continues to organize. The message: "it will be the poor and dispossessed of this nation that will save us from self destruction.”

Female prison inmates are being disciplined at much higher rates than men for lower-level offenses in many states.