Lawyerless No More
Once a person is imprisoned, indigent defense stops. But the gravity of mass incarceration demands legal representation to the very end.
14 posts in ‘life without parole’
Once a person is imprisoned, indigent defense stops. But the gravity of mass incarceration demands legal representation to the very end.
A PBS series on reentry is exposing audiences to how people leaving prison grow, heal, and thrive despite their past.
Most reentry programs assume a person who is able to work and live on their own. Those of us who are older don’t have that kind of freedom.
There's no aging with dignity for people serving extreme sentences. Freeing them is only a start to a deeper paradigm shift.
A candid portrait of the experience of fighting for clemency in Louisiana—a route to freedom now severely threatened by the state’s new carceral governor.
People condemned to die in prison are telling the world about it—and fighting to free one another in the process.
Life-without-parole sentences hit families especially hard. Yet they fight on, committed to their loved ones’ freedom.
Abolitionist Ruchell Cinqué Magee is the country’s longest-held political prisoner.
The Visiting Room Project offers an intimate glimpse into the stories of Louisianians serving life without parole.
Looking back on 25 years of abolitionist feminism and organizing in California.
Our government's history of oppression compels us to free those Black revolutionaries aging in our prisons.
The bureaucracy in charge of parole in Georgia hasn’t kept up with the reality that the state’s prison system is a hotbed of death and despair.
Older New Yorkers are dying in state prison at an alarming rate. Once and for all, they need to come home to their families.
One year after a governor's clemency, Renaldo Hudson, who spent 37 years incarcerated, reflects on violence, prisons, and the vital importance of education and support for those incarcerated.