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Charlie Riedel / AP The Link Between Race and Solitary Confinement
Men of color are overrepresented in isolation, while whites are typically underrepresented.
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Steven Senne / AP More Prisons Are Phasing Out the 'Box’
A new study offers data on the continued use of solitary confinement, and a corrections leader weighs in on the practice’s future.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Declaring Addiction a Health Crisis Could Change Criminal Justice
The surgeon general’s new approach on substance abuse has policy implications for law enforcement.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters President Obama Hits Another Commutation Milestone
With 79 new grants, he’s set a modern-era record for presidents.
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Losing Your Brothers to Prison
This week I wrote a six-part series that explored the myriad effects on the siblings of young people who serve…
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Kara Gordon Getting Therapy Instead of Serving Time
A whole-family approach shows promise in keeping young offenders out of prison.
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Kara Gordon 'I Can’t Keep My Brother Out of Jail, and That Hurts'
A younger sister shares her profound grief for a brother who can’t seem to escape a cycle of crime and prison.
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Kara Gordon Is Juvenile Justice Beyond Repair?
One advocate describes what happens in a family when a child is behind bars.
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Kara Gordon In Prison, but Still a Big Sister
A sibling bond that could not be broken by incarceration.
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Kara Gordon Brothers Behind Bars
What happens when the only life you’ve known has been in an institution?
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Kara Gordon When a Sibling Goes to Prison
Thousands of young people are sent to prison every day, leaving behind scores of brothers and sisters researchers know very little about.
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Courtesy of Chicago Torture Archive A Digital Archive Documents Two Decades of Torture by Chicago Police
Amid continued accusations of police misconduct, the force must contend with a digital rehashing of a sordid chapter in its history.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Justice Department Corrects for a Use-of-Force Blind Spot
A new program might signal the feds’ readiness to get more involved in local policing practices.
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Ben Margot / AP What It Takes to Secure Clemency
Sentenced to life in prison for dealing drugs, Jason Hernandez wrote his way into a commutation from President Obama.
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Kevork Djansezian / Reuters Ava DuVernay's 13th Reframes American History
In her new documentary, the filmmaker explores how the Thirteenth Amendment led to an epidemic of mass incarceration in the United States.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters Has the 'Ferguson Effect’ Finally Been Debunked?
Two sets of data out this week poke holes in the popular theory.
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Jeffrey Phelps / AP Police Brutality Leads to Thousands Fewer Calls to 911
It might be making neighborhoods less safe.
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Tim Sharp / Reuters What the FBI's Crime Numbers Mean in One City
Homicides are up nationally, along with other violent crimes—and a close look at San Antonio provides some context.
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Gerry Broome / AP Criminal Justice Is Becoming a 'Latino Issue'
Yet there’s still a great deal we don’t know about Latinos and the criminal justice system.
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AP The Question Some Public Universities Will No Longer Ask
Dozens of higher education institutions in New York state will stop asking applicants whether they have past criminal convictions.
