OpinionOpinion'Ex-Con,' 'Ex-Offender' and 'Ex-Inmate' Are Words That Reduce Millions to StereotypeJerry Blassingame5/01/19 10:00AM
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Mass IncarcerationMass Incarceration'Feeling Cute' Corrections Officers Feeling Jobless After Controversial Social Media PostsAnne Branigin4/23/19 10:30AM
Congress Considering Making Pell Grants Available to Inmates, Reversing Decades-Long BanIbn Safir4/21/19 2:05PM
Criminal JusticeCriminal JusticeUnable to Press Charges in Jail Death of Mentally Ill Man, Virginia Attorney Indicts Justice SystemAnne Branigin3/06/19 1:58PM
Mass IncarcerationMass IncarcerationThis Black History Month, Let’s Recognize the African-American Prisoners Who Helped Build AmericaTalitha LeFlouria2/26/19 11:47AM
Mass IncarcerationMass IncarcerationAmerican Justice: Abuse Domineque Ray as a Boy, Discriminate Against Him as a Man, and on Death Row, Kill HimIssac J. Bailey2/08/19 10:46AM
Law EnforcementLaw EnforcementReport: Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Have Had a Family Member IncarceratedJay Connor12/08/18 1:21PM
Mass IncarcerationMass Incarceration2 Texas Judges Sent 20 Percent of All Juveniles to State Prisons Last YearAngela Helm10/23/18 6:45PM
A Thank-You Letter to Kim Kardashian for Proving White Privilege Is RealMichael Harriot6/07/18 1:09PM
The Root VideoThe Root VideoWatch: To Understand How Harmful Juvenile Incarceration Is, Listen to This PoemAshley Velez4/11/18 4:25PM
Rikers Doesn’t Put Teens in Solitary; Other New York Jails DoTaylor Elizabeth Eldridge3/28/18 12:00PM
Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Invests in App Aimed at Improving Our Criminal-Justice SystemAnne Branigin3/20/18 8:48AM
The Root VideoThe Root VideoWatch: Freed After 20 Years in Prison, but Now the Government Wants to Send Him BackPeter J. Rickards1/25/18 2:56PM
The MovementThe MovementBaltimore’s Latest Plan to Clamp Down on Crime: Tricking and Trapping YouthsCarimah Townes12/08/17 9:00AM
