The vast majority of the ideas won’t make it to the desk of Gov. J.B. Pritzker or become law, but the list of proposals ...

Illinois House lawmakers propose bills for community-based prison alternatives and a ban on single-use plastic and paper bags ...

When the Oʻahu Women’s Court was established in 2022 to offer an alternative to incarceration, officials had a goal of ...

Maryland's Equitable Justice Collaborative faces challenges in its mission to reduce mass incarceration. The system's entrenched White supremacy holds sway.

State Senator Brian King is aiming for a new project aimed at halting Governor Sarah Sanders' controversial prison expansion ...

Last year was a record-breaker for Cass County Court & Pretrial Services. The agency served 363 clients, marking a 21% increase from 2023 and a 59% increase from 2022. It also saw a 5% rise in ...

Lessons from a radical 20-year experiment and a quiet triumph of public policy. David Muhammad (center) teaching a session of the Healthy, Wealthy and Wise program in Oakland, Calif., for young ...

Sen. Bryan King, R-Green Forest, presents an alternative proposal to the state's prison plan during a press conference in Little Rock on Jan. 8, 2025. (Mary Hennigan/Arkansas Advocate) Instead of ...

Bar president Ezri Abdul Wahab repeats its call for systemic prison reform after alleged assault of prisoners in Taiping.

This is especially true with the BOP who carry out the punishment of prison with limited programs to divert those convicted to alternatives to incarceration. The Federal Sentencing Guidelines ...