Browsing: Stories From Our Network: Inside Criminal Justice

This section features the best criminal justice reporting around the nation, produced by our media partners and collaborators, and journalists who have participated in the Criminal Justice Reporting Fellowship programs sponsored by the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, TCR’s parent organization. For a more comprehensive list of Fellows’ work, please check out the “programs” section—and monitor this site for information on upcoming programs and how to apply!

At  a medium security prison in Chester, Pennsylvania, selected residents live in single cells with Nordic-like furnishings and order groceries from the outside, in a pilot project aimed at showing how the Scandinavian-style approach to imprisonment could make the U.S. penal system more humane.

A number of formerly incar­cer­ated people in Florida could land back behind bars for mistakenly believ­ing they were eligible to vote because of a 2018 ballot initi­at­ive that restored voting rights to most Flor­idi­ans with past convic­tions.