People experiencing mental or behavioral health crises and addiction have often been subject to police use of force, arrest and...

Back in 2005, Jameel McGee says he was minding his own business when a police officer accused him of - and arrested him for - dealing...

Daryl Davis and a Klansman. In 1983, I was out playing at the Silver Dollar Lounge. I had just finished playing the first song when...

At the heart of the Korean spirit is a concept called “Han.” I define Han as “irreparable sorrow.” A more accurate definition might be...

Tim Phillips, a veteran conflict-resolution expert, helped negotiate some of the most fraught conflicts in modern history — ceasefires of...

In Detroit, Michigan, an urban vegetable garden grows on a vacant lot. By cultivating green spaces like these, and even simply mowing...

Clara Moore via Instagram A growing women-led restorative justice system ... operates within the territory of the Autonomous...

Carrillo said he would love to continue teaching. Photo Credit: Rachel Woolf for Chalkbeat On a late-November afternoon, at the head of a...

APAC, a Brazilian non-profit that advocates for better treatment of prisoners, has a unique model in the dozens of facilities it manages...

ManifestWorks [is] a unique program that guides people from homelessness, incarceration and foster care directly into entry-level jobs in...

Northwestern University's Prison Education Program welcomed its inaugural graduating class of incarcerated students on Wednesday, marking...

On Bastoy, an island 46 miles south of Oslo, [125] residents live in brightly colored wooden chalets, spread over one square mile of...

Photo from article. August 9, 2014, was one of the most memorable days of my life. On that day I entered a maximum-security prison in...

For the roughly 2.2 million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails, daily life is often violent, degrading, and hopeless. But what...

Scanning a prison menu is a bleak task. Common food items range from nutraloaf - a mishmash of ingredients baked into a tasteless beige...

Nico is one of 11 puppies in the Leader Dogs for the Blind Prison Puppies program, trained by 23 inmates at the Macomb Correctional...

Mike Miles hadnt had a stable job in years. This wasnt due to a poor work ethic. Because Miles had a criminal record, he was always cut...

Only hours after the ambush that killed five Dallas law enforcement officers, mental health experts began thinking ahead, searching for...

There are few people who can say their job saved them, but former gang member Rafael Jimenez says he's one of them. "If I wasn't working...

If you follow the news regularly - even if the stories you see are factual - youre likely to overestimate the amount of violence in the...