Criminal Justice

Across the U.S., prisons, jails, and detention centers are being transformed from facilities that confine people into ones that support them.

The mobile mental health service CAHOOTS handles public safety calls related to mental or behavioral health for the Eugene Police Department.

A decarceration project will see a 1,100-bed Atlanta jail transformed into a “Center for Equity” to serve the local community.

Across the U.S., groups of volunteer street medics are dispensing medical care to police brutality protestors in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

In our weekly roundup, we take you inside the fight to reform America’s criminal justice system, exploring potential solutions to this complex problem.

A father-daughter pair learned to code while the dad was in prison. Now, their startup is helping other prisoners connect with their kids.

City officials are removing Confederate monuments in Virginia, Alabama, and several other Southern states in response to the George Floyd protests.

The George Floyd protests remained largely peaceful in these cities, with protestors and law enforcement occasionally even standing shoulder to shoulder.

Articles, thought leaders, and organizations worth paying attention to following the murder of George Floyd by police in Minnesota.

Breastfeeding isn’t a right afforded to mothers in prison. One former inmate wants to change that.