Why Prison Reform Is Not Enough to Fix the U.S. Criminal Justice System. The Trump administration’s rhetorical support for reforming America’s prisons is contradicted by its policies to ...

Van Jones says he and other advocates of prison reform lost heart when the Trump Justice Department turned against sensible prison reform measures. But he says the influence of Jared Kushner has ...

At a recent symposium at San Quentin prison, a group of district attorneys from across California met with inmates to talk about the state's model of prison reform.

Eric Holder, then Attorney General, announced in August 2013 that the Federal Bureau of Prison population had topped over 200,000 and it was time for action to reduce it.

But recently, prison reform has gained bipartisan support. President Donald Trump signed a federal reform, the First Step Act, into law in 2018.

The practice—where inmates can spend 23 hours a day locked in a tiny cell—can take an extreme psychic toll on prisoners, including sparking panic attacks and hallucinations.

Yet, while sweeping prison reforms have been enacted in several states, similar measures on the national level have languished for decades. Since 1980, the federal prison population has swelled by ...

The Prison Reform and Redemption Act that I (Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga.) introduced with my friend and colleague Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., would help prepare prisoners for release by assessing ...

The Feb. 20 front-page article about efforts to undo parole and sentencing reforms in Louisiana, based on the highly unlikely premise that our rapidly aging prison populations will repeat their ...