Glenn E. Martin

What would it take to re-work the criminal justice system? For starters, there must be a reduction in the prison population, which is made up of more than 2.3 million Americans.

Today, 2.2 million adults are in state or federal prisons. How will history view President Obama’s efforts to reform the criminal justice system?

Hear from social entrepreneurs who are bringing justice back to the criminal justice system. Hosted by WNYC's Jami Floyd.

Rikers Island has become a symbol of dysfunction in the criminal justice system. So what would a humane jail look like? Experts in designing complex jail systems weigh in.

Over the next three days, 6,000 people will be released from federal prisons. Some will go to waiting families, others will go to treatment centers, and many others will be on their own.

Glenn E. Martin is an advocate for cutting the U.S. prison population by 50 percent by 2030. 

Glenn E. Martin, vice president of development and public affairs of Fortune Society, a New York-based prisoner re-entry advocacy group, talks about the U.S. Justice Department's new policy to avoid mandatory minimum money and lives through prison reform.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is reexamining its requirement that employers do criminal background checks on job applicants. Glenn E. Martin, Vice President of Development and Public Affairs at the Fortune Society, weighs in.

The Brennan Center for Justice recently released a report, "Jim Crow in New York," that says felony disenfranchisement in the state is an extension of Jim Crow laws. Co-author and attorney Erika Wood discusses the report, and Glenn E. Martin, associate vice president of policy and advocacy at ...