In the United States, punishment does not always end at sentencing. For many people placed on probation, the penalties extend far beyond court supervision. They reach into housing, employment, voting rights, and increasingly, access to food. A newly added analysis titled “Hunger as punishment: How states restrict SNAP benefits for people on probation” on the

America’s criminal justice system has long been plagued by systemic injustice, mass incarceration, and a revolving door of incarceration that disproportionately affects marginalized communities. While conversations around bail reform and prison abolition have taken center stage in recent years, parole reform remains one of the most urgently needed yet chronically overlooked components of true criminal

A call for safety should never come at the cost of human dignity. Recently, thousands of New York prison staff staged a strike, calling for rollbacks to the HALT Solitary Confinement Act—a law designed to limit the use of prolonged isolation in prisons. They argue that these reforms have made their jobs more difficult and