This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. Later in the program, we'll talk about elections set for Zimbabwe, where 89-year-old President Robert Mugabe is hoping to win yet another term ...

The number of people in prisons and jails in the United States declined slightly in 2017, according to data released on Thursday by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, a decrease driven by ...

The English historian Thomas Fuller once wrote, “Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile ...

But the report also found that Colorado’s violent crime rate had increased by more than 55% over the past decade. Looking at the period from December 2019 to December 2021, Colorado’s prison ...

Aclu Report Highlights Ways To Reduce State Budgets And Prison Populations. Explore Press Release.

Across the country, fewer people are behind bars today than a decade ago but a new analysis from the Prison Policy Initiative said women are being left out of that progress. Nearly half of U.S. states ...

A committee of the National Research Council examined the best available evidence and found no clear evidence that greater reliance on imprisonment achieved its intended goal of substantially reducing ...

After serving time, Janine Battista overcame stigma and barriers to rebuild her life, highlighting the challenges thousands ...