By Naila Awan and Katie Rose Quandt
On April 26, 2022, President Joe Biden used his executive powers to commute the federal sentences of 75 people — a first step toward addressing his campaign promise to release some individuals “facing unduly long sentences.” While this action is promising and will …
The miniseries depicting a New York prison escape fails to show what happened to the men left behind.
by Katie Rose Quandt, The Appeal, a nonprofit criminal justice news site
The true story of a 2015 prison break from a New York maximum-security facility has electrified viewers of Showtime’s …
by Amanda Aronczyk & Katie Rose Quandt, WNYC Radio
In 2005, Francis Brauner was a quarter of the way through a 20-year prison sentence at the Dixon Correctional Institute in Louisiana, when he had an accident.
Brauner was imprisoned for a rape conviction, which he maintains was wrongful and part …
It’s well known that people of color are vastly overrepresented in U.S. prisons. African-Americans and Latinos constitute 30 percent of the U.S. population and 60 percent of its prisoners. But a new study by University of California-Berkeley researcher Christopher Petrella addresses a fact of equal concern. Once sentenced, people of …
