In our new annual report, we share examples of how we are building on the foundations of our research and visualizations to meet the challenges ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
The Bureau of Justice Statistics is tasked with collecting, analyzing, and publishing data about the criminal justice system. But its reports are slowing down - ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
The short answer is no - social distancing is even harder behind bars than in nursing homes or on cruise ships.| www.prisonpolicy.org
We offer five areas where quick action could slow the spread of the viral pandemic in prisons and jails and in society as a whole.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Research and advocacy about how mass incarceration affects individuals, communities and the national welfare.| www.prisonpolicy.org
We explain how to use our 35-state report Parole in Perspective to jumpstart investigations into your state's parole system.| www.prisonpolicy.org
Despite their differences, all discretionary parole systems have serious design flaws and most are steadily releasing fewer people, a new report shows.| Prison Policy Initiative Blog
The number of imprisoned women globally has grown 60% since 2000. The United States remains a major driver of this population, a new report shows.| Prison Policy Initiative Blog
How small organizations can make the most of their resources to build relationships with the media.| Prison Policy Initiative Blog
The Fourth Circuit has revived an incarcerated person’s lawsuit challenging a $15 fine taken from his account as punishment.| www.prisonpolicy.org
New rules, the result of the bipartisan passage of the Martha Wright-Reed Fair and Just Communications Act, are a massive victory in the decades-long fight ...| www.prisonpolicy.org
New report explains how many system-involved youth are confined, where they are held, under what conditions, and for what offenses.| www.prisonpolicy.org
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.| www.prisonpolicy.org
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.| www.prisonpolicy.org
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
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
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
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
