10 great ways to help end mass incarceration this giving season About Us: Just Impact is a grantmaking and advisory group focused on ending mass incarceration. We manage the Just Impact Fund, a...

The American Prison Newspaper collection is an archive of newspapers published by and for incarcerated people.

Public spending on private sweep contractors is soaring across the state – and unhoused people allege poor treatment

Rob Bonta's reelection bid will gauge the public's commitment to criminal justice reform.

Background & methods National protests in the summer of 2020 drew attention to the significant presence of police in marginalized communities. Recent social movements have called for substantial...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon became the first state to decriminalize hard drugs like heroin and methamphetamine and to legalize therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms on Tuesday, with two ballot...

Price, a reform candidate, had the top spot among four contenders after the initial count of ballots on election night.

Nonprofits measure their success in Social Return on Investment (SROI). Find out more about SROI and how eviction prevention creates a 1:4 return.

The study is the first to link a higher prevalence of Black doctors to longer life expectancy and lower mortality in Black populations.

Pressures of upcoming re-election and retention election campaigns make judges more punitive toward defendants in criminal cases, according to a new Brennan Center analysis of social science research.

A new study found that when people lose health insurance, crime rates go up. Bolts spoke to one of the authors about the implications, at a time of a nationwide drop-off in Medicaid.

Law enforcement officials and community activists strongly disagree over how Measure J would impact the criminal justice system.

A well-funded campaign turned inchoate anger over the visible symptoms of inequality into a renunciation of reform.

Wednesday night’s debate was likely the only time before the June primary that residents get a chance to publicly question DA alongside his challengers.

The city of Los Angeles tells the story.

The Philadelphia race is part of a national strategy to put progressive candidates into office and build power around issues like mass incarceration.

Wins by José Garza and Monique Worrell add to a series of victories for criminal justice reformers this year.

Two Harvard professors propose the greatest expansion of the police bureaucracy in Western history.

A lot of public commentary about police reform is preoccupied with the political popularity of ‘defund’ and whether it has hurt Democrats. However, while the mass movement of the summer of 2020 may...