Why Target Stopped Asking Job Applicants If They’ve Been Convicted of a Crime
More than 60 counties, cities, and states—and some corporations—are reducing discrimination against former offenders by removing one small box from job applications.
Criminal justice reform
New York Inmates Draw Strength from Prison-Themed Hip-Hop Album
Members of the Rochester-based group Da Cloth have sent the tape to more than 150 inmates.
An End to “The Hole”?: 6 Signs that Solitary Confinement Reform Is Coming
Much of the momentum in the movement to reform the use of solitary confinement in the United States comes from the work of prisoners themselves.
Meet the New Rebels Taking Back Our Public Schools
For decades the myth of failing public schools justified industrial-scale testing and a privatization agenda. Now radical educators are bursting the bubble test, getting culturally relevant, and restoring justice to the classroom.
Discipline With Dignity: Oakland Classrooms Try Healing Instead of Punishment
As executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, Fania Davis sees programs like hers as part of the way to end the school-to-prison pipeline.
How Restorative Justice Changed This Colorado Cop’s Views on Prison
In restorative justice, those who commit crimes have to face the consequences of their actions. After this Colorado policeman tried it out, he came to believe it's part of the answer to America's prison problem.
This New Bill Could Put 2,500 More People In Prison: Meet the Organization Trying to Stop It
"Violence is not simply shooting people. Violence is also poverty. It's also incarceration—putting people in prison is incredibly violent."
Why Is Texas Planning to Execute a Man Who Killed No One?
The controversial Law of Parties expands the guilt for murder to include accomplices and those who knew the crime was going to occur.
To Keep Kids Out of Trouble—And Prison—Teach Them to Understand Their Emotions
After teaching students to understand and talk through their conflicts, schools in Denver and Los Angeles have seen major reductions in disciplinary action.
Standing with Troy Davis in His Final Days
A year ago today, the state of Georgia executed a man whose guilt was widely contested. Jen Marlowe, friend and journalist, on what it was like to stand with the Davis family on the last day.
Righting Wrongs the Maori Way
Instead of prison, New Zealand chooses restorative justice and community problem-solving.
An Insider’s Take on Restorative Justice
Forty years since prison, Patrice Gaines still fights to get free.
Think Outside the Bars
Why real justice means fewer prisons.
From Top Cop to Drug-Legalization Advocate
Seattle's ex-police chief now fights to end the war on drugs.
The Night I Forgave My Daughter’s Killer
How a grieving mother put compassion before vengeance, and found closure along the way.
Just the Facts: It’s a Locking-People-Up Problem
The American problem with mass incarceration is less about crime than it is about how—and who—we lock up.
Raising Babies in Prison
Supporting the bond between inmates and their newborns gives these families a better start.
Danny Glover: The Death Penalty in This Great Nation of Ours
Speech given at Princeton considers the fallibility of our justice system and the finality of death.
Youth Court: Jury of Their Peers
The Time Dollar Youth Court in Washington, D.C.
for first time juvenile offenders aims to keep first offenders
from becoming hardened criminals.
War Games
the War on Drugs: the social cost of the drug war and the people in and out of the criminal justice system who are calling for an end to war.
Genesee Peacemakers
Involving victims in the criminal justice system can lead to healing, community empowerment, and fewer repeated offenses.
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