At best, prison work programs increase the chances of successful reintegration after release. At worst, they can be exploitative.
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Rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap federal funds during hard times.
Nearly all county jails across Colorado’s Front Range allow prisoners to visit with their loved ones only virtually.
A new policy at Allegheny County Jail allows incarcerated people to earn money for their work. The goal is to improve conditions for everyone involved.
While accused Bondi gunman Naveed Akram’s case is among the worst of the worst, his severe incarceration has a flow-on effect to non-violent inmates nationally.
One of the most high-profile court cases in Australian history has ended in the maximum sentence. Two legal experts explain the process.
Incarcerating people who use drugs is associated with increased overdose deaths after release and high rate of recidivism.
The closure of youth detention centres is a positive development. However, without adequate investment in community organizations that serve youth, it is a move set up to fail.
Placing migrants who are not criminals in prisons risks serious violations of their human rights and perpetuates narratives about the criminality of immigrants.
With a series of high-profile cases in the news, parole is back in the spotlight. Let’s unpack some of the most common misconceptions about what parole really means.
There are proven ways to significantly reduce violent crime within the next five years. It requires becoming not “tough on crime,” but “smart on crime” before it happens.
Deepfake pornography raises questions about consent, sexuality and representation. The issue is more complicated than online misogyny — new criminal laws are not our best response.
Pierre Poilievre’s “tough-on-crime” rhetoric relies on discredited ideas that can lead to overly harsh penalties and actually increase crime.
Until the justice system reckons with its systemic racism, pre-sentencing reports will fail to shift the way the courts see Black offenders.
Receiving visitors while behind bars was a raft of benefits, but people have reported many barriers. It must be made easier to help drive down recidivism rates.
Lockdowns can have severe impacts on an inmate’s mental and physical health and well-being.
People with mental health challenges are more likely to die in custody. The coroner’s inquest into the death of Soleiman Faqiri in an Ontario jail is one such tragedy that calls out for reform.
Higher jail mortality is related to jail turnover rates and demographics.
Mesopotamia’s prisons were built for detaining people, not punishing them. But they shaped powerful ideas about justice and reform that aren’t so different from today’s.
Most people leaving prison face an uphill battle of service navigation that is too often deficit-focused, intentionally seeking out the failures of the individual and centred on punitive responses.
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Senior Lecturer, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury
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Assistant Professor, Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
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Addiction Division, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
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