Elizabeth Warren Announced a Plan to Ban Private Prisons. Then Their Stocks Tanked.

Jordan Weissmann

June 21, 2019 3:32 PM

National Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson on How He Teaches—and Actually Reaches—Kids in Juvenile Detention

Rachelle Hampton

May 10, 2019 5:35 PM

“Smart” Technology Is Coming for Prisons, Too

Nila Bala and Lars Trautman

April 30, 2019 7:30 AM

Trying to Restore the Vote to Prisoners Hurts More Than It Helps

Jon Sherman

April 29, 2019 6:07 PM

Is Brooklyn’s Gun Court Getting Weapons off the Streets—or Just Locking Up More Young Black Men?

Emily Bazelon

April 17, 2019 5:45 AM

After 40 Years in Solitary Confinement, Albert Woodfox Is Fighting to End the Inhumane Practice

Politics and Prose

April 05, 2019 11:25 AM

Elizabeth Warren’s Proposal to Imprison More Corporate Executives Is a Bad Idea

Carissa Byrne Hessick and Benjamin Levin

April 04, 2019 1:39 PM

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Legalized Torture

Mark Joseph Stern

April 01, 2019 1:14 PM

DNA Evidence Freed Him From Prison. Florida Is Retrying Him Anyway.

Andrew Cohen

March 28, 2019 4:36 PM

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Juvenile Justice Legacy Is Under Assault in the D.C. Sniper Case

Mark Joseph Stern

March 18, 2019 3:04 PM

Twenty Years Ago, I Helped Convict Two Men of Murder. I’ve Regretted It Ever Since.

Seth Stevenson

March 05, 2019 5:45 AM

Four Steps for Getting Republicans on Board With Criminal Justice Reform

James Mooney

March 01, 2019 5:06 PM

The New Ground Zero for Criminal Justice Reformers Is Ferguson

Maura Ewing

Feb 28, 2019 11:00 AM

Florida Inmate Sues Prison After Losing $550 Worth of Music

Tamara Evdokimova

Feb 22, 2019 4:02 PM

Is the Move Away From Cash Bail Increasing Mass Incarceration?

Barry Lam

Feb 16, 2019 1:00 AM

“I Knew Right Away It Was My Dad”: A Conversation With the Daughter of the Serial Killer BTK

Zach Schonfeld

Feb 12, 2019 5:50 AM

SCOTUS Let a Muslim Prisoner Die Without Access to His Imam on Thursday Night

Dahlia Lithwick

Feb 08, 2019 2:56 PM

Why Is It Taking Ralph Northam So Long to Resign?

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz

Feb 07, 2019 7:14 PM

Days of Protest Over Unheated Brooklyn Prison End After Power Is Restored

Molly Olmstead

Feb 04, 2019 10:20 AM

The New Criminal Justice Reform Law Has Already Righted One Outrageous Injustice

Mark Joseph Stern

Jan 03, 2019 4:30 PM