This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Mother Jones. In early April, Sarah Moore got the news she was dreading: Her husband, Dennis Jackson Moore, had been denied parole again.

A formerly incarcerated writer reflects on how the prison system didn’t foster change, but befriending time did.

Despite having the nation’s fourth-highest imprisonment rate, the state of Oklahoma only employs a part-time parole board to review the jackets of offenders eligible for parole. Each member earns ...

California’s crime rate began a historic plunge in the early 1990s and has fallen ever since, except for some small spikes, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet it took more than a decade until ...