Mass Incarceration Causes And Consquences

Thanks to Visually (http://Visual.ly) for facilitating the creation of this video, to http://youtube.com/kurzgesagt for the animation, and ...

'Investments in people, not jails and prisons, leads to a decrease in crime' — We're breaking down the history and stats behind ...

Created for Spring 2018 JUST 225: Justice in American Experience at James Madison University.

In this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of ...

America didn't stumble into

The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. With 2.2 million people behind bars, and millions more on ...

Incarcerating US is a feature-length documentary that exposes America's prison problem and explores ways to unshackle the ...

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the "I Have a Dream" 50 years ago, he had no idea Jim Crow would be replaced with ...

Mandatory minimums were supposed to help crack down on drug crime in the 80s. But they've had huge unintended ...

John Pfaff joins us this week to talk about the United States's unusually high rate of

Punishing offenders for their crimes is the primary goal of the American criminal justice system. But what about victims & affected ...

As the first anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd approaches, we speak with author and journalist Victoria Law, who ...

Rhode Island Public Defender Mary McElroy discusses how individuals and their families are affected by

The writer Adam Gopnik contemplates the epidemic of

Criminologist Todd Clear explains how over

'Our safety, our belonging, and our dignity are ripped apart by the criminal legal system' — Co-founder of

Brookings Institution. (2021). A better path forward for criminal justice: Reimagining pretrial and sentencing.

Historian Donna Murch traces the historical origins of the U.S. "war on drugs" and the system of

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