Fifteen essays coedited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers, featuring contributions from Lacy M.

Freakonomics for the law—how applying behavioral science to the law can fundamentally change and explain misbehavior

Urgent and empathetic, Entry Lessons is one of the first examinations of the lasting impact of incarceration on women and their families

The 2021-2022 UUA Common ReadA groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment

Justice Gatson founded the Reale Justice Network in Kansas City, Missouri. Among other social justice issues, it focuses on ending the cash bail system, a national issue that disparately affects people of color.

Book to note: Redemption Songs: A Year in the Life of a Community Prison Choir.

"People of faith, particularly those of us who are white progressives, need to combat the systems of criminalization in our country. Systems of policing and criminalization in this country are inherently violent, steeped in and created to reinforce white supremacy, anti-blackness, and racialized...

Please join our ad-hoc group of Indigenous people and allies to urge your Members of Congress to take appropriate actions to protect the lives of our Indigenous loved ones – and all people – living in federal prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic.   ...

A journalist on the front lines in a battle for criminal justice reform in Spokane, Washington.

General Assembly rallies with local activist groups against expansion of Spokane County Jail, raises almost $40,000 for community center.

Chanting “End mass incarceration!” and “Schools not cells!” about 1,000 Unitarian Universalists gathered in a public park in Spokane, Washington, for the General Assembly 2019 public witness event.

Two prison chaplains who minister together in Oregon’s only women’s prison discuss the need to end the prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration.

The prison industrial complex is built upon a cycle of re-incarceration that it perpetuates. Many folks held in cages because of unaffordable bail are there because they are caught in a vicious cycle where they are being re-arrested for past challenges with unpaid fees/fines or court cases. (1) ...

Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism drafts bylaws, introduces membership program, and works to end cash bail.

Gather a group in your community to participate in the BLUU Babies and Bailouts Watch Party and Donation Drive on Sunday, April 28 (or soon thereafter).

On any given night, more than 450,000 people who have not been convicted of any crime are incarcerated in the United States simply because they don't have enough money to pay bail.  ...

As elections approach, Unitarian Universalists work to register voters, promote criminal justice reform, and re-enfranchise 1.5 million people in Florida.