A National Campaign to Crack Down on Massage Businesses May Harm the Women it Wants to Help Polaris, a Washington, D.C.-based non-governmental organization best known for operating the National Human ...

Inside NY Courts Where Sex Workers are ‘Painted as Victims and Treated as Criminals’ Two new reports challenge the efficacy and ethics of prostitution diversion programs in New York City and ...

On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation's largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its failure would represent a remarkable victory for advocates ...

New York's Adult Survivors Act briefly lifts the statute of limitations for sexual abuse lawsuits. Imprisoned women hope for change.

Freddie Gray, Five Years Later On the anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising protests, new evidence in Gray’s death uncovers suppressed witness accounts of police brutality. Illustration by Daniel ...

Sports venues like the new SoFi Stadium have been crushing poor communities around the country for over a century.

The latest frontier in drug reform has been the loosening of legal restrictions on psilocybin—the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms.” Psilocybin reform is an important development for at least ...

As Climate Change Worsens, Deadly Prison Heat Is Increasingly an Everywhere Problem With heat waves sweeping across the country, incarcerated people in states with traditionally milder climates are ...

According to FBI data, the U.S. is about as safe as it’s ever been. So why is tough-on-crime rhetoric on the rise?

Police at Polling Places Could Intimidate Voters This November, Advocates Warn This year’s presidential contest will be the first since a federal judge lifted a decades-old consent decree barring the ...

Kamala Harris’s Criminal Justice Record Killed Her Presidential Run Harris’s record as a prosecutor was representative of a politics of the past. The nation has moved on.

Why Prisoners Get The Doctors No One Else Wants Even after a major class action suit required Illinois to revamp its prison healthcare system, doctors whose alleged neglect resulted in major injury or ...