Angela Davis –– an author, political activist and professor –– spoke Feb. 4 at Ford Hall for a conversation event titled, “We ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

The former GP was considered by his neighbours to be a bit of a recluse, although he would sometimes venture out of his living space to mix with others if he felt sociable.

Jen Whiting, graduate student studying curriculum and instruction, explained that attending this event was a tremendous opportunity to learn something she hadn’t considered before, such as prison ...

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Morton Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Ayers, who grew up in Glen Ellyn and lives in Chicago, was in Evanston to talk about his new book, a collection of eight essays ...

In 2015, Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of masterminding the "dark web" platform, on which some $200 million in narcotics were sold to customers across the world.

Some women still wore the pink cat-eared hats of yesteryear, but otherwise, Saturday’s protest was virtually unrecognizable from the landmark 2017 Women’s March that signaled the start of the ...

I now advocate we move away from ‘reform’ of the problem and towards building solutions outside of it. Speaking about prison abolition to women who have been in prison requires empathy and ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

and that doesn’t reduce violent crime any more than a long prison sentence would. The Zimbabwean path to abolition began about a decade ago, with a roadmap to gather evidence for advocacy and ...