Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, Emily Bazelon talked with Judith Resnik about her new book, Impermissible Punishments: How Prison ...

Let’s unpack prison abolition and how the U.S. came to incarcerate 2 million people. The United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world, and people across the political ...

Speaker A: Hello and welcome to Gabfest Reads for the month of September. I’m Emily Bazeln. I am here with Yale law professor Judith Bresnik to talk about her amazing transatlantic history of ...

The United States Constitution remains one of the highest protections of individual freedoms; however, these rights remain frequently ignored, eroded, or denied despite protections for current and ...

Decades of 'tough on crime' policy have expanded prisons while narrowing reform. Restorative justice has been repeatedly constrained not for lack of evidence, but because it redistributes authority ...

Prison reform can help many inmates prepare for life outside prison instead of just punishing them. The approach allows them to learn new skills and ways to cope with life's ups and downs. Reform can ...