A new study analyzing a national survey of youth in custody reveals stark disparities in rates of staff physical assault among Black and neurodivergent youth.| Prison Policy Initiative Blog
Come learn how small organizations can make the most of their resources to build relationships with the media.| Prison Policy Initiative Blog
The policy demands are designed to challenge the unchecked power of sheriffs and improve jail conditions for people in custody.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Research and advocacy about how mass incarceration affects individuals, communities and the national welfare.| 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
The harsh reality is that this order will criminalize already-vulnerable people who are in need of care, putting our communities in danger.| Prison Policy Initiative Blog
The new report explains how the Trump administration is using a longstanding loophole to circumvent sanctuary policies and obscure the full scale of its immigration ...| 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 Fourth Circuit has revived an incarcerated person’s lawsuit challenging a $15 fine taken from his account as punishment.| Prison Policy Initiative Blog
Incarcerated people and their loved ones will continue to be exploited by sheriffs and telecom companies for two more years, while these same interests lobby the FCC to water down its rules.| Prison Policy Initiative Blog
For some of the thousands of pregnant people entering jails each year, at what might be their moment of greatest need — going into labor — jails turn a blind eye, harming mothers, newborns, and their families. The latest project from our partners at Advocacy and Research on Reproductive Wellness of Incarcerated People, or ARRWIP, illuminates these haunting stories and the dire need for data and education about pregnancy in jails.| Prison Policy Initiative Blog
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
The Trump Administration has made a lot of claims about how it will change the criminal legal system. We explain where the president and federal ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
Moving people between prisons can improve their access to treatment, programs, and visitation — but transfers can also be deeply traumatizing, disruptive, and destabilizing. In ...| 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
A list of valuable online resources from organizations and agencies focused on immigration detention.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Treatment programs offer promising results for recently incarcerated people, but prisons aren’t using them.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Any amount of time spent in solitary confinement increases the risk of death after release from prison, including deaths by suicide, homicide, and opioid overdose.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Under this new rule, more than 340,000 people over the age of 65 who are on probation or parole will have access to healthcare coverage.| 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
LGBTQ people are overrepresented at every stage of our criminal justice system, from juvenile justice to parole.| 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
Incarceration can trigger and worsen symptoms of mental illness — and those effects can last long after someone leaves the prison gates.| 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
