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The inmates in this documentary offer reasons for rethinking the harsh sentencing of young people in Washington State.

ComingSoon is excited to debut a clip from the upcoming film Since I Been Down by Gilda Sheppard.

Law enforcement is investigating threats sent to Rep. Tarra Simmons, D-Bremerton, after she filed a bill regarding sentences for drive-by shootings.

UCSC’s Visualizing Abolition project — made up of graduate students and faculty aiming to further the discussion on mass incarceration and policing in the U.S. through art — was awarded a $1.977 million grant this week by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The initiative has produced two art exhibitions and a speaker series that has reached thousands across the country.

Old, new, major, minor—here’s our city, and sometimes our state, on the screen. Photo collage: Shutterstock by Everett Collection and Featureflash Photo Agency, Seattle Met composite. A pan across lake union. Then we plunge into a tugboat's engine room, where we meet the married, middle-aged couple who own it. They'll spend the next hour and a half engaged in bouts of slapstick bickering. That’s how Seattle first hit cinema screens, in 1933, in Tugboat Annie. It's not exactly a must-see, but since then, the city and the state around it have been portrayed in hun...