If we want to keep people safe, we need institutions more like the fire department and less like the police department.

The New Yorker and the New York Times present “beautiful” stories of the human spirit in prisons. But why don’t we come away committed to ending the caging of human beings?

From the unmatched power of prosecutors to the political corruption of judges, our criminal punishment system is rife with injustice.

On the life of Shawn R. Griffith, and the extraordinary book he produced during his precious few years of freedom.

Moms shouldn’t have their kids taken away. But the prison system does this routinely to parents across the country. Family separation is inherent to incarceration, which is why incarceration itself is an evil.

No, introducing Singapore-style canings is not going to make American public infrastructure stop sucking.

The criminal punishment system targets poor children and children of color for the harshest treatment without addressing the root causes of crime.

It is disturbing that there is even any debate about this. But even some Democrats have supported keeping forced labor legal.