How to Build a Better Jail
Rikers Island, the infamous and isolated jail complex located off the coastline of New York City, is officially being shut […]
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Our Bail System Isn’t Working
For the past few years, states have been slowly making progress on reforming their criminal justice laws, including throwing out […]
10 Outstanding Solutions of 2017
Across the country, changemakers are operating behind the scenes, working to solve some of America’s most daunting problems. They do […]
Putting Their Prison Pasts Behind Them
America’s criminal justice system currently houses more than 2 million people — that’s more per capita than any other nation […]
A Prison Sits Empty. A Nonprofit Moves In
As a social worker accustomed to prodding the minds of adjudicated youth in the juvenile justice system, Noran Sanford has […]
This Nonprofit Has Hit on the Way to Keep Ex-Offenders Out of Prison
On a gray morning earlier this year, former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey was talking with Omari Atiba, a convicted […]
A Prison With No Walls
This isn’t Thomas DiSilvestre’s first stint in prison. At 23 years of age, he’s already been inside New York’s Rikers […]
A Food Truck Run by Former Inmates Charts a New Course
Since 2014 the New York City–based Drive Change has been operating a food truck, called Snowday, as a way of reducing […]
Harsh Sentences for Drug Users Go Up in Smoke
Sure, everything’s bigger in Texas. Except, that is, jail sentences for casual stoners who get caught toking up. Houston’s newly […]
The Impressive Top-to-Bottom Makeover of the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice System
Teenagers make mistakes. They sneak out past curfew to drink at a house party, shoplift clothes, graffiti their names in […]