It is late in the afternoon in Montgomery. The banks of the Alabama River are largely deserted. Bryan Stevenson and I walk slowly up the cobblestones from the expanse of the river into the city. We ...

Since the 1970s, the American prison population has grown by 700 percent (while the general population has grown by approximately 150 percent). While America’s problem with mass incarceration has ...

Several years ago, Damascus James started exchanging letters with people in Texas prisons. That evolved into a project called Texas Letters, a collection of letters written by people living in ...

OXFORD, Ohio -- Criminal justice reform is an issue that is raging in the United States. The nation faces very alarming rates of mass incarceration and heavy racial disparities. According to the ...

The US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. There are currently two million people in prisons and jails in this country. Yet mass incarceration, for all the lives it touches, ...

Northwestern University researchers will take a deep dive into how incarceration affects people's risk factors of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias with a $20 million NIH grant. The five-year ...