Our expert panelists on this webinar spoke about the power of prosecutors to make decisions that affect people’s lives — thousands of times a…

How did a Mississippi man end up getting sentenced to serve 60 years in prison for purchasing cold medicine and batteries? Blame the state’s ineffective…

Civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis joins The Justice Collaborative to discuss his recently published book, “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice…

Since its formalization, the death penalty has been marked by racial bias, wrongful convictions, soaring costs, and disproportionate impacts on the most vulnerable people. From…

How many people are really booked into local jails each year? And for what crimes? Our panel digs into a recent Prison Policy Initiative report…

Kids should not be in the adult criminal legal system. But every year in the United States, close to 100,000 youth are put into the…

During the webinar, panelists discussed how the cash bail system criminalizes poverty, as well as pretrial incarceration’s impact on a person’s later sentencing (especially for…

As of 2016, there were 206,268 people in the United States serving a life-sentence or a de-facto life sentence of over 50 years. It would…