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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters New York City Has Its Own Fund to Bail People Out of Jail
It’s one of several ways local officials are trying to reform a bail system that the state largely controls.
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LM Otero / AP What Happens When a School Stops Arresting Kids for Throwing Skittles
Officials in Louisiana have embraced a much softer approach to school discipline than they did just a few years ago. And suspensions are down dramatically.
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Steve Nesius / Reuters How Archaeologists Are Rescuing Miami's History From the Rising Sea
A few more feet of water would flood 16,000 archaeological sites across Florida.
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Eric Risberg / AP How New Jersey Is Leading the Post-Bail Revolution
A new report shows how far the rest of the U.S. has to go to catch up on bail reform.
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G. Newman Lowrance / Getty Images Stanching the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Recent reports highlight school disciplinary practices and suggest ways to stop them.
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Julie Dermansky / Getty Images New Orleans' Great Bail-Reform Experiment
The most incarcerated city in the most incarcerated state is experimenting with programs to reduce its jail population. And so far, they seem to be working.
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Jeff Roberson / AP How Municipal Courts Target Low-Income Communities
A new federal report explains why the number of people jailed for unpaid fines can’t be fully quantified across the U.S.
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David Goldman / AP New Zealand Tries a Different Kind of Private Prison
A new high-security facility in Auckland flips the incentives on for-profit incarceration to keep inmates from returning.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters Why Isn't Seoul More Worried About North Korea?
The younger generation, in particular, seems detached from the prospect of war.
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Memphis Fire Department A City's Solution to Too Many 911 Calls
To cut down on the burdensome costs of non-emergency medical calls, Memphis is taking an experimental approach to health care.
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Thyssenkrupp Can a Sideways Elevator Help Designers Build Taller Skyscrapers?
ThyssenKrupp’s design travels horizontally and diagonally, in addition to up and down, freeing up square footage that would otherwise be commandeered for a shaft.
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Seth Wenig / AP Designing the Opposite of Rikers
A new report lays out design guidelines for community-based “justice hubs”—jails that create positive effects inside and outside their walls.
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Matt Rourke / AP Criminal-Justice Reform Survives Its First Stress Test
Why didn’t the fall of former Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams on fraud and corruption charges doom his reform-minded agenda?
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Brynn Anderson / AP The Rise of Rural Incarceration
Local jails in smaller counties are seeing enormous growth. A new report explains why.
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Grenfell Tower Fire and London's Public-Housing Crisis
“The spectacular nature of the fire may be a one-off, but the conditions that made it possible are not.”
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Gerald Herbert / AP Why New Orleans Leads the U.S. in Wrongful Convictions
Louisiana just passed a suite of prison-reform bills, but that may not put a huge dent in incarceration rates.
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James Leynse / Getty Images Why Boston Is Paying Ex-Gang Members to Go to College
The deal: $400 a week to stay in school. Is it worth it?
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Environmental Communications / LAXART What the Instagram of the 1970s Reveals About Los Angeles
A new retrospective looks at a group of young photographers who infiltrated academic slide libraries with radical images of a changing city.
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Library of Congress / Reuters What Betsy DeVos Didn't Say About School Choice
Charter schools have fueled school resegregation in urban America.
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Stefanie Loos Companies in Gay-Friendly States Are More Innovative
Firms in places with more tolerant laws, new research indicates, attract more talented workers and file more patents.
