The Bureau of Justice Statistics published 2023 data on pregnancy prevalence and outcomes in prisons, as well as the prison systems that offer relevant prenatal and postnatal accommodations, supports, and programming.
May 7: Briefings
Research Report by Samantha Plummer and Jaclyn Davis, Columbia Justice Lab
May 6: Research Library: Jails
Today, we released a new tracking tool that shows the full scale of the crisis unfolding in communities and behind bars, and a new resource page for folks looking to learn more about the repression and detention of undocumented immigrants.
April 30: Prison Policy Initiative Blog
The American criminal legal system has always been terrible, but what has happened in recent months is different. It is in a new kind of crisis. The Trump administration is making the criminal legal system larger, harsher, and less effective
With this new resource, we're connecting the dots of the actions of the Trump administration to show they aren't individual policy choices, but a larger strategy that doubles down on the failed policies that created the nation's mass incarceration crisis in the first place.
Learn about the national prison crisis and how we can begin to turn the tide on mass incarceration. Then, drill down to your state. Be sure to also check out our pages focused on D.C., and the incarceration of Native people.
If our work is new to you, you might want to check out our 2023-2024 annual report.