How a Medicare rule that ends financial burdens for the incarcerated leaves some behind Medicare expands enrollment periods for people released from prison after January 1, 2023, but offers no relief for people who have been paying premiums for zero Medicare benefits while incarcerated, nor for those released before 2023 who signed up late and are stuck paying jacked-up premiums for the rest of their life.
New data: Police use of force rising for Black, female, and older people; racial bias persists New survey data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics on police interactions in 2019 and 2020 provide the broadest look at relations between police officers and the public. The findings leave a lot to be desired (as they’re primarily pre-pandemic), but the message is clear: police are still a massive presence in our communities, and they don’t always provide the solutions and safety we need.
On April 26, President Joe Biden announced that he would commute 75 federal prison sentences. By historical standards, 75 is a tiny number of commutations for a single president. Our new report asks: Why isn’t commutation — a time-honored way for governors and the president to shorten prison sentences — used much anymore? We examine the number of commutations in the federal prison system and a sample of eight northeastern states from 2005 to 2021, finding that state and national leaders have been using commutation at extremely low rates compared to how it was used in the past.
Mass incarceration, state by state
Learn about the national prison crisis and how we can begin to turn the tide on mass incarceration. Then, drill down to your state.