Release News

05/19/2016

05/19/2016

The Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report exploring the fastest growing portion of the prison population, those 55 or older.

05/19/2016

Money bail is a vast moral abomination

05/19/2016

Bryan Stevenson discusses the relationship between the U.S.’s world-leading incarceration rate and our history of racial injustice.

05/19/2016

The US prison population has increased by 500% over the last 40 years. It's time to reform our broken criminal justice system. Tune in on May 23 and join THE RETURN PROJECT to learn more.

05/19/2016

With a little over 6 months left in his term, President Obama is on track to become the President who has granted the smallest portion ...

05/19/2016

Report tracking state jail regulations that protect letters from home in every state.

05/19/2016

"If it wasn't for Jenal, I really don't know what I'd be doing with my life right now."

05/19/2016

Aileen Keays Yeager, Project Manager for CCSU's IMRP and the Children with Incarcerated Parents Initiative, holding Scripture Cat at the InterNational Prisoner's Family Conference in Dallas, TX two weeks ago!

05/19/2016

The May 2016 Traffic Stop Data Analysis Report, written by the Racial Profiling Prohibition Project and edited by Release's Abigail Minor, is now available online. Visit http://www.ctrp3.org/reports/ for the full report.

The IMRP's Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project presented its report at the Capital yesterday. Read more here: http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-racial-profiling-0923-20150922-story.html

05/17/2016

We need this first step.

05/13/2016

"Now is your opportunity to own a piece of American History," said the GunBroker.com listing by "GZ1776." The website then pulled the listing, saying it wanted "no part in the listing."