criminal-justice-reform
Who’s Afraid of the Boston Bomber?
Liberals and conservatives alike use Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a boogeyman to deny prisoners their rights
Has the Three-Strikes Law Finally Struck Out?
L.A. has become the first municipality to try to strike down a policy that’s done very little other than destroy the lives of Black and brown families
What ‘Time’ Can Teach White Viewers About Our Racist Judicial System
Documentarian Garrett Bradley tells the story of the Richardson family, who lost their patriarch for two decades because of an unfairly harsh prison sentence
As COVID Deaths Mount, Prison Wives Are Fighting to Save the Men They Love
With the penal system as callous as ever and coronavirus ravaging California prisons, they fear they’re the only thing standing between life and death for their husbands