Even while incarcerated, the author describes how she continues to mother her son—and why systems that support connection matter.

Thirty-two days. That’s the amount of time I went without hearing my son's voice when he entered the Kansas foster care system and I entered the Kansas Department of Corrections. While holding all the fears and uncertainty surrounding my own life, I realized my son was experiencing life without me. I didn't know where my son was sleeping, who was c ...

Twenty-two people have died in county jails so far this year.

How are people dying?It typically takes months for Los Angeles County to publicly issue causes of death for people who have died in LA County jails. And even once autopsy reports are finalized, they don’t tell the whole story. When the coroner rules that a death is the result of “natural causes,” jail conditions can still be to blame. Researchers h ...

The 14th Amendment states that people born in the United States are citizens. No president can change that.

The day President Donald Trump was inaugurated, he signed an executive order attempting to sharply limit eligibility for birthright citizenship. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in Trump v. Barbara a simple fact made clear by the U.S. Constitution: If you are born in the United States, you are an American citizen. This is a critical victory f ...