A social safety net does a better job of achieving a more harmonious society than thousands of assault weapons and armored vehicles. Police reduction should become the American way.
In South Africa, private security companies have eclipsed the police force, threatening the state’s democratic authority and replicating apartheid-era racial inequality. Is the U.S. next?
In a powerful new film, director Katherin Hervey explores a program at San Quentin prison that pairs inmates with ‘surrogate victims’ as a form of therapy
More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.
For a week, Seth Meyers turned the start of his show over to Amber Ruffin, who shares some of her encounters with the police.
Examples abound of reforms that are seen as “radical” in the United States.
To save the planet, a Green New Deal has to transform our entire society. Part of that transformation must include the deconstruction of our system of mass incarceration.
But the persistence of racially biased policing means that unless American policing reckons with its racist roots, it is likely to keep repeating mistakes of the past.
Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why the hysteria surrounding the 1989 case caused more children to stand trial as adults than at any other time in U.S. history.
The Good Place asks a moral question that’s unusual for TV: what’s the point of jail?
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