Land of the Free? Far from it.
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. These places have it the worst.| americaninequality.substack.com
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. These places have it the worst.| americaninequality.substack.com
Research and advocacy about how mass incarceration affects individuals, communities and the national welfare.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump| www.prisonpolicy.org
We've updated the data tables and graphics from our 2017 report to show just how little has changed in our nation's overuse of jails: too ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
Parole boards are granting parole contingent on participation in programs that are often not readily available for people behind bars, especially during the pandemic.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Organizations working to reform parole systems in their states are encouraged to sign on to these 16 principles.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Research and advocacy about how mass incarceration affects individuals, communities and the national welfare.| www.prisonpolicy.org
The health burdens of jail expansion are heaviest in places that already lock a lot of people up. Those places also would see the largest ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
Research and advocacy about how mass incarceration affects individuals, communities and the national welfare.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Our review of copay policies show that exemptions are so limited, ill-defined, and inconsistent that they fail to make the copay system less harmful for ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
The big picture on how many people are locked up in the United States and why| www.prisonpolicy.org
Survey data shows mass incarceration has been used to warehouse some of the most disadvantaged members of society| www.prisonpolicy.org
Report showing poverty of those detained pretrial in local jails.| www.prisonpolicy.org
An underutilized government dataset goes deep into daily life in state prisons — including work assignments, programming, and discipline — revealing lost opportunities for rehabilitation, ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
Louisiana lawmakers are eliminating discretionary parole and implementing regressive truth-in-sentencing laws. These billion-dollar “zombie policies” are set to double the prison population in a state ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
Recent research suggests the onset of pretrial detention’s criminal legal system, social, and economic harms is earlier than previously thought.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Government survey results illuminate the broader consequences of locking up people with children.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Our report reveals that at least 4.9 million people cycle through county jails each year, and most have serious medical and economic needs.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Communities across the country have been told that investing in new jail construction is the only way to solve old policy problems, but arguments for ...| 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
Unfortunately, this year saw the return of many types of failed criminal legal system policies that would be more at home in 1993 than 2023. ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
The research is clear: visitation, mail, phone, and other forms of contact between incarcerated people and their families have positive impacts for everyone — including ...| 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
Among the 27 states we surveyed, only 7 saw an increase in parole approval rate, and almost every state held substantially fewer hearings than in ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
Graph showing who profits from mass incarceration. (Hint: It's not just the private prison companies.)| www.prisonpolicy.org
Newly released data doubles down on what we’ve reported before: Formerly incarcerated people face huge obstacles to finding stable employment, leading to detrimental society-wide effects. ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
