Heat waves and floods are making Californian prisons increasingly unlivable. The state needs a better plan to address that.

Police are making low-level arrests even as public health experts have called for immediate decarceration to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Conservative opponents of cash bail reform in New York saw an opportunity in the pandemic—and took it.

On Thursday, the New York City Council will vote on shutting down the jails on Rikers Island. Should new ones replace them, or is it time to reform criminal justice more broadly?

A single tweak to job applications would change the lives of millions of ex-cons

Even Van Jones and Newt Gingrich agree