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.

If you lock down the schools, shooters will kill outside. “Red flag” laws cannot isolate threats with accuracy. We have to take on gun ownership itself.

Incarceration is an evil, and it’s unconscionable to do it for the sake of employing people. We need public works projects that uplift people rather than those that increase human suffering.

Far too often, U.S. cops take the easy way out by using deadly force.

It might not be “real” in the conventional sense, but it’s still a deadly diagnosis in the hands of police.