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a woman in a jail cell
Feature

Few Jails Provide Addiction Treatment, Making Release Fatal

Elizabeth Brico
incarcerated person taking methadone
Feature

Jail Isn’t A Drug Treatment Center. Stop Promoting It As One.

Elizabeth Brico
Feature

The Criminal Justice System Should Be Trying to Trying to Put Itself Out of Business

Marlon Peterson
Rikers Island protest
Analysis

Closing Old Jails Doesn’t Mean You Have to Open New Ones

Marlon Peterson
incarcerated people crammed onto bunks set up in a prison gym
Feature

2.2 Million Americans Are Behind Bars. That’s More Than The Prison System Can Handle.

Elizabeth Brico
Feature

The Fight Against Cash Bail Is Officially Mainstream

Jason Fernandes

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