Detaining the Poor: How money bail perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time | Prison Policy Initiative
Report showing poverty of those detained pretrial in local jails.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Report showing poverty of those detained pretrial in local jails.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Research and advocacy about how mass incarceration affects individuals, communities and the national welfare.| www.prisonpolicy.org
The 2019 Census of Jails (COJ) is part of a series of data collections that studies the nation's local jails and the 12 Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) detention facilities that function as jails. The 2019 COJ collected data necessary for producing estimates on local jail populations, including one-day custody counts by sex, race and Hispanic origin, conviction status, and severity of offense (felony and misdemeanor); counts of non-U.S. citizens by conviction status; juvenile counts; holds fo...| Bureau of Justice Statistics
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
Recently published data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics show growing prison and jail populations, but this has little to do with crime. Instead, the ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
Incarceration can trigger and worsen symptoms of mental illness — and those effects can last long after someone leaves the prison gates.| www.prisonpolicy.org
