Jarrod Shanahan is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University.
Meek Mill is finally free. But his case, depicted in a new Amazon docuseries, shows the urgent need to challenge the criminalization of poverty and the class society that jailed him in the first place.
US prisons are horrific — so horrific, in fact, that a former top physician at Rikers Island insists in a new book that we treat incarceration itself as a cause of harm to the imprisoned.
The Showtime mini-series Escape at Dannemora is a brutal portrait of the quintessential American prison town — where dehumanization reigns, no matter which side of the wall you're on.
Janus represents a turn from conciliation with public-sector unions towards pure repression.
The remake of Death Wish is a failure — because the law-and-order politics animating the original film triumphed long ago.