With droves of research suggesting education is one of the most effective tools to rehabilitate those currently serving…
Last week, I got to participate in American Injustice: A BET Town Hall. It’s a series of live conversations with…
It should have been clear that Jamycheal Mitchell was not well. At least, that’s what a recent report from Virginia…
Like much of the rest of the discourse around jails, prisons and mass incarceration, Black History Month is not usually…
Domineque Ray was born in a country that is proud of its stated principles, which supposedly include justice for all.
According to a new study conducted by FWD.us and Cornell University, nearly half of all adults in the United States—a…
Two Harris County Texas judges accounted for more than one-fifth of all children sent to the state’s juvenile prisons…
Dear Kim Kardashian West:
In a spoken-word poem, Dwayne Betts details the emotional impacts of juvenile incarceration.
Editor’s note: This is the second of two essays The Root is publishing in partnership with Caught, a new podcast from…
Editor’s note: This is the first of two essays The Root is publishing in partnership with Caught, a new podcast from…
Want to know what phase the moon is in? There’s an app for that. Want to track your meals? There are dozens of apps for…
Matthew Charles was released in 2016 after being incarcerated for more than 20 years. But now the Justice Department…
Updated Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, 1:15 p.m. EST: After being called out by the ACLU for banning an award-winning book…
The first of nine jails at the Rikers Island complex in New York City will be shut down by the summer, the city’s…
With the number of lethal and nonlethal shootings, robberies and assaults on the rise in Baltimore, police and…
Let me make this clear: I’m not team #FreeMeekMill, but I am team #FreeRobertRihmeekWilliams.
When it comes to incarceration, being able to be granted bail and then to come up with the bail money are two of main…
I’m taking it for granted that anyone who knows anything about the American criminal-justice system could hazard a…
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