An unusual thing happened last year: The number of people in U.S. prisons declined. After decades of exponential growth, both the state and federal prison…

There's a stark and troubling way that incarceration diminishes the ability of a former inmate to empathize with a loved one behind bars, but existing…

The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks discuss the effects that incarceration has on the families of the incarcerated, and how they have…

In the Land of the Free, one-quarter of the entire planet’s prison population, some 2.2 million people, currently languish behind bars; yet, an astonishing number…

Hillary Clinton has called, tepidly, for an end to mass incarceration, in vague terms, without policy details: “There is something profoundly wrong when African-American men…

This article is the first in a series exploring the effects that unconscious racial biases have on the criminal justice system in the United States.…