Michelle Alexander

We must get it right this time or risk losing our democracy forever.

A letter from inside Marion Correctional Institution is the voice of those locked in cages and discarded during this pandemic.

From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial.

I still needed an abortion.

We must face violent crime honestly and courageously if we are ever to end mass incarceration and provide survivors what they truly want and need to heal.

Recent criminal justice reforms contain the seeds of a frightening system of “e-carceration.”

Donald Trump is the one who is pushing back against the new nation that’s struggling to be born.

I write and lecture about the horrors of our criminal justice system. Explaining the Darren Wilson decision to my child was much harder.

Perversely, the criminal justice system gives officers an incentive to perjure themselves.

What would happen if thousands of people charged with crimes refused to plead out?