Treatment programs offer promising results for recently incarcerated people, but prisons aren’t using them.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Research and advocacy about how mass incarceration affects individuals, communities and the national welfare.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Despite the common refrain that jails and prisons are de facto treatment facilities, most prioritize punitive mail scanning policies and strict visitation rules that fail ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
FFJC Nevada together with our key partners across the state were able to successfully pass significant fine and fee reform in the 2023 legislative session with bipartisan support from the Democratic controlled legislature and newly elected Republican governor. We also thwarted efforts to impose new fees in the criminal legal system and set the groundwork for future misdemeanor reform.| Fines and Fees Justice Center
Incarceration can trigger and worsen symptoms of mental illness — and those effects can last long after someone leaves the prison gates.| www.prisonpolicy.org