The use of cash bail has been recurrently critiqued as one of the critical civil rights issues of this century. For people who are legally presumed innocent, cash bail produces wealth-based detention ...

Incarceration is a social determinant of cardiovascular health but is rarely addressed in clinical settings or public health prevention efforts. People who have been incarcerated are more likely to ...

With athletes from all around the world competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics, pronouncing their names can get a little tricky at times. Luckily, the official Olympics website has a handy way to help ...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — A new report by the Prison Policy Initiative tracks the largest budgets in the mass incarceration system for 2026, finding that a staggering $445 billion flows annually through ...

As temperatures outside the DeKalb County Jail plunged into the teens, a tragedy was unfolding inside the Georgia jail. Lamar Walker was begging for help and slowly freezing to death, according to a ...

Some of the largest banks in the nation for years have eschewed the business of private prison giants like GEO Group and CoreCivic, the two firms that operate more than half the private carceral ...

We are honored to welcome Charles F. Walker, distinguished professor of history, University of California, Davis, as the Spring 2026 Neilson Professor. On February 5, he will deliver a lecture titled, ...

Rikers Island, in the southern Bronx, NYC, currently houses ten detention facilities and over 6,000 inmates and is set to close by 2027 to be replaced with a borough-based jail system. This proposal ...

Photographs of towering skyscrapers edited into the silhouettes of figures and portraits layered with identification cards jump out against the plain white walls of the Cooper Square Gallery at NYU.