When a person enters custody, their need for healthcare does not disappear. Asthma, diabetes, mental illness, chronic pain, pregnancy, infectious disease and…
School suspensions are often treated as short-term discipline: a student is removed from class, spends several days away from learning, and returns expected to…
Across many democracies, the path to meaningful criminal justice reform often begins at the local level, where councils and parish governments hold direct…
When someone you love is being held at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, the hardest part is often not the distance or the waiting, but the steady drip of…
Across the United States, parish and county jails hold hundreds of thousands of people who have never been convicted of a crime. They are awaiting trial, often…
In recent years, families of incarcerated people, journalists and policy researchers have pushed for clearer pathways to information about conditions behind…
Across Australia, advocacy organisations that work on criminal justice reform are rediscovering an old truth: universities are not ivory towers, they are…
Public scrutiny of correctional institutions has reshaped the conversation around mass incarceration across many democracies, and East Baton Rouge Parish…
Across Australia, community legal centres and advocacy groups have long recognised that people held in custody often struggle to access reliable information…
Mandatory minimum sentences are laws that require judges to impose a fixed period of imprisonment for particular offences. They are often presented as a…