Despite work to improve the justice system, insufficient attention is paid to conditions behind bars. Prisons and jails must ...

Recently, the North Dakota legislature passed bills referred to as “Justice Reinvestment.” These measures were designed to decrease the number of convicted individuals sent to prison. Incarceration ...

For the thousands of Californians with criminal records, the consequences of their mistakes continue to haunt them and hamper their ability to thrive long after they have served their debt to society.

In April 1993, Georgia instituted new parole guidelines that led to longer prison terms for parole-eligible offenders. This paper shows that an extra year of prison reduces the three-year recidivism ...

The celebrity host: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The challenge: 38 young convicted felons who must make it through four grueling months in a boot camp rehabilitation program, or face prison sentences ...

Barbara Rhode and Melissa Greene in the WMNF studios. Barbara Rhode, founder of the Red Tent Women’s Initiative in St. Petersburg, talks about the non-profit’s trauma-centered program that gives women ...

The pendulum has swung during many decades. On the one extreme, a prevalent view in the 1960s and into the 1970s was that almost any offender could be redeemed through participation in a variety of ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Rep. Dianne Hart (D-Hillsborough) filed a bill ahead of the 2023 legislative session to help convicted Floridians transition back to their communities and reduce the time that ...