The U.S. obsession with mass incarceration is our country’s Achilles heel when it comes to reducing COVID-19 spread. The Trump administration optimistically projects that “substantially under” 100,000 ...
The White House has adjusted the transcript of a speech Vice President Kamala Harris gave on Friday after Harris made a statement seemingly promoting population reduction. Harris’s comment on reducing ...
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said, "When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water." It's true Harris ...
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said, "When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water." It's true Harris ...
New multi-scenario modelling of world human population has concluded that even stringent fertility restrictions or a catastrophic mass mortality would not bring about large enough change this century ...
Why do we elect prosecutors, anyway? That’s my question after reading Leon Neyfakh’s interview in Slate with law professor John Pfaff, “Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?” Pfaff suggests that ...
Federal judges agreed Tuesday to extend an end-of-year deadline for reducing California's prison population in hopes of finding a long-term solution to an overcrowding crisis that has forced the state ...
With all his detailed attention to the complex political processes and the geographical and economic inequities involved in reducing ecological costs, Peter Dauvergne (“Conservation’s Uphill Battle,” ...
A new report offers a look at who was incarcerated in Wayne County Jail and why before the coronavirus hit, and makes recommendations for reducing the jail population after the pandemic. The report ...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania enacted a new law Wednesday that is designed to limit the stays of lower-risk offenders in prison in its latest effort to reduce the state’s prison population and to stop ...
Starting Thursday, sharpshooters will be able to begin operations in Worthington’s residential neighborhoods to reduce the ...