Community members in both Los Gatos and Saratoga recorded how Japanese American incarceration affected their communities during World War II, noting that the history still has implications for ...

Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in U.S. jails or prisons. By 2023, that number was roughly 186,000, according ...

Governments have historically used family separation as a tool to disempower specific racial and ethnic communities. Examples ...

(CBS News) Is it fair to call the United States the "incarceration nation"? That's what some experts say. And even some veteran law enforcement and correction officials think something's gone wrong.

This story was produced in partnership with the Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization addressing the crisis of mass incarceration and policing. But these critics are wrong. There ...

Uneasy about discussing mass incarceration—and its related issues like race, poverty, and punishment—with your students? Here are some resources to get you started. Common representations of the ...

As Obama noted, some people will always need to be in prison, and the $80 billion includes the cost of probation and parole, so that full sum isn’t going to be freed up even through really extensive ...

Weber is an African American studies professor at University of California, Davis. He has worked at the Vera Institute of Justice, Alternate ROOTS, the Marcus Garvey Papers Project, and as a public ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. At first, Dawn Harrington blamed herself when her younger ...

This month, in a rare moment of bipartisanship, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) advanced major legislation that would allow courts ...

Women’s incarceration has risen dramatically, increasing by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The ...