Along with a new understanding of what a just society looks like, say members of the Irish Penal Abolition Network.

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

A growing hunger strike is underway in California’s prison system, launched by incarcerated individuals protesting what they ...

Today marks the 245th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the Commonwealth, which took place 85 years before Juneteenth.

Men at the Limestone Correctional facility are placed back onto the chain gang when they leave the prison grounds for their daily labor as road crews in this photo taken just outside of Huntsville, ...

While the attempt was thwarted, abolitionists raised money to purchase freedom for some of the runaways, including Ellen. They found her work in Boston, where she encountered a young man named ...

In the movies, people bolt upright, panting after dramatic awakenings from bad dreams. I thought that was an exaggeration until I experienced it behind bars. In my nightmare, my 2-year-old son entered ...

Hailed as the start of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, the Stonewall Riots took place at New York City’s Stonewall Inn fifty-six years ago this month. On June 28, 1969, police attempted to arrest ...

MADISON — A Dane County judge sentenced a man who brutally attacked a University of Wisconsin-Madison student to 30 years in prison, calling him an "extreme risk" to the public.

These are critical questions, yet this panel, with its setting at a four-year public university, also highlighted a key contradiction: While some on the right and left dive into prison reform and ...