The infection rate from COVID-19 in New York City's Rikers Island jails is currently almost 30 times the rate for the U.S. as a whole. As the city struggled to get people out from behind barscriticiz

In cities across the United States, the effects of the coronavirus are not being experienced equally. Whether its infection rates, deaths, or job losses, people of low income and people of color are

Bruce Western's book, Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison, is, as its title suggests, about the challenges confronting people re-entering society after a period behind bars. But it's also inevitab

In 1996, 16-year-old Reginald Dwayne Betts was sentenced to nine years in prison for a carjacking. He spent much of that time reading, and eventually writing. After prison, he went to Yale Law School and published a memoir and three books of poems.

In Practice is a new podcast from the Center for Court Innovation focusing on practitionerspeople working on the ground to make things better for those touched by the justice system. On the first epi

At 24, Jarrell Daniels was released from prison after six years behind bars. It was a Thursday. The following Tuesday, he came back to the same facility in street clothes to attend the college class he’d started on the inside.

With Kim Foxx running for re-election as State's Attorney in Cook County (Chicago), it's an excellent moment to revisit one of the best conversations we've had on the podcast. Foxx, the first African-

Community service has long been a staple of sentencing in the U.S., and has long enjoyed a sunny, mostly uninterrogated, reputation as a more restorative and humane alternative to fines and fees or short-term jail.

The movements to end cash bail and close jails are connected, and gabriel sayegh has been in the thick of organizing both fights. The co-executive director of the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice explains why he thinks New York’s impending ...

As chief medical officer for New York City jails, Homer Venters realized early in his tenure that for many people dying in jail, the primary cause of death was jail itself. To document these deaths, Venters and his team created a statistical category n...