Chris Wolfe, who teaches creative writing at Rikers Island through the Justice-in-Education Initiative, reflects on his complicated journey of being a black officer in...

Since 1994, prisoners have been unable to receive Pell Grants, the primary provider of federal financial aid to low-income students.

Current state law in New York allows prosecutors to conceal crucial evidence from defense attorneys and their clients until shortly before the time of trial.

On Tuesday, December 18, 2018, the Senate approved a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, the most substantial in decades.

The National Humanities Alliance mentioned the Justice-in-Education Initiative in their latest Humanities for All essay, “Goals of the Publicly Engaged Humanities.”

“We are watching, in real time, a new right discourse come to define the American presidency.”

“So much of what really happens in our system is that people are cowed into submission, traumatized and damaged.”

“It is in part by measuring the US prison population against the rest of the world’s that we underscore the extent to which mass incarceration is a genuinely massive...

For The New York Times Magazine, Ben Austen profiles Larry Krasner, the new progressive District Attorney of Philadelphia aiming to make the criminal-justice system more...

PEN America has published their first anthology of prison writing, which collects the winning poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic writing from their yearly Prison...