A recent article from The Marshall Project discusses the hardships that families go through as states are shipping parts of their inmate […]
ASPIREist is a new half-hour reality feature news show. Each episode has three features ranging a wide variety of topics. The purpose […]
Earlier this year, South Dakota abolished life without parole sentences for children. Last week Utah passed similar legislation. The new law does […]
Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative have focused their work on the unequally high incarceration rates of African Americans. They argue […]
Oprah recently interviewed criminal justice activist Shaka Senghor as part of her SuperSoul Sunday series. Shaka spent nineteen years in prison for […]
A recent article from The Crime Report details one man’s experiences re-entering society after thirty years behind bars. The article is the […]
Last week, Florida governor Rick Scott signed a bill into law that prevents judges from overruling juries’ recommendations for life imprisonment and […]
A recent article by the Equal Justice Initiative reports on a study published by the Justice Department that found that allegations of […]
On February 26th, the USA Today reported that Google.org, the philanthropic sector of Google, is giving $1 million to the Equal Justice Initiative. […]
This week the New York Times reported that a man had been released from prison after spending many years in solitary confinement. Albert Woodfox […]
The Equal Justice Initiative published an article yesterday that examined the record-breaking number of exonerations in the United States in 2015. The […]
In the first few weeks of February, the popular photo blog Humans of New York has featured photographs and stories of federal […]