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Cyntoia Brown-Long discussed her journey from prison to an advocate working to reform juvenile sentencing guidelines.

The Brennan Center’s Lauren-Brooke Eisen discussed the increase in coronavirus cases in the U.S. prison system and its overall impact on the prison population.

President Trump delivered remarks and handed out diplomas to graduates of the Hope for Prisoners program, which provides assistance to former inmates. At the start, the president addressed the Roger…

Yale’s Charles Barber talked about his Citizen Outlaw: One Man’s Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper. In his book he detailed the life of William “Juneboy” Outlaw, who went from convicted felon to…

Justice Action Network executive director Holly Harris discussed prison and sentencing reform.

Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Kathleen Sawyer testified on the operations of her agency before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She was asked about the ongoing investigations involving…

Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, talked about his book, The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences.

Former Governor Robert Ehrlich (R-MF) of the conservative-leaning Right on Crime organization discussed criminal justice reform.

President Trump spoke about his administration’s criminal justice reform efforts including the bipartisan passage of the First Step Act at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina. He called up former…

A House Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing examining women in the criminal justice system. Among the witnesses were Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black, and Cynthia Shank, a…

John Pfaff, author of Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform; Rachel Barkow, author of Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass…

BookTV presented coverage of Free Minds Book Club, which takes place twice a month with inmates at the Washington, D.C., Jail.

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen gave an update on the implementation of the FIRST STEP Act, a criminal justice reform bill signed into law in 2018 that grants early release to…

New York Magazine’s Emily Bazelon took part in a discussion of her book, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, in which she reported on the…

Aviva Stahl talked about her special investigation piece for The Nation Magazine, “Gag Order,” which looks at the treatment of prisoners in a U.S. super maximum security prison in Colorado. This…

Professor Dan Berger talked about the U.S prison system in the late 20th century and the politics behind it. He spoke about how mass incarceration arose in response to the unexpected ways…

Nick Gillette gave a tour of the world’s first penitentiary, opened in 1829 by the state of Pennsylvania. The prison was a new experiment in reform of criminals and was copied all over the…

John Koufos of Right on Crime talked about criminal justice reform and reentry programs for ex-convicts.

President Trump delivered remarks at the 2019 Prison Reform Summit at the White House. Several beneficiaries of the FIRST STEP Act, which granted early release to qualifying federal…

The American Conservative Union hosted its annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) near Washington, DC. In this panel, CNN’s Van Jones and ACU Chair Matt Schlapp discussed…