When Janet Garcia-Hallett, Ph.D., was growing up in Harlem, she noticed the impact that incarceration had on communities of color, much like her own. Drawn to the field of criminal justice, she also ...

A returned package sent from Seattle-based Books to Prisoners to an inmate in Texas. A name and address have been covered for privacy. Two nonprofit prison book programs say the Texas Department of ...

Debbie Hines knows a lot about criminal justice—the former trial attorney, Baltimore prosecutor, and Assistant Attorney General for the State of Maryland has had years to hone her experience in this ...

On a summer night in 1971, Michael Henderson, age 18 and black, was hanging out near a nightclub in East St. Louis, Ill., when a car driven by a white boy, with two black passengers, pulled into the ...

In his new book “Welcome the Wretched,” immigration lawyer César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández makes a case for separating immigration policy from the criminal justice system. The Ohio State University ...

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