What’s New
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Life imprisonment: A Policy Briefing by Penal Reform International and University of Nottingham
May 21: Research Clearinghouse: International Incarceration Comparisons
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Legal Resources The legal resource database was updated with a new listing for New York.
May 21: Legal Resources
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Legal Resources The legal resource database was updated with a new listing for Oregon.
May 18: Legal Resources
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Workers With Criminal Records by Society for Human Resource Management and the Charles Koch Institute
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New report from Essie Justice shows women with incarcerated loved ones are traumatized by marginalization Mass incarceration intensifies the financial and social burdens that already fall too hard on women.
May 14: Prison Policy Initiative Blog
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Jail will separate 2.3 million mothers from their children this year 80% of the women jailed each year are mothers. We’re inflicting profound damage not only on them, but their children as well.
May 13: Prison Policy Initiative Blog
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Your location data: free to anyone with a Securus contract For nearly a year, the FCC knew about Securus’s cellphone tracking and turned a blind eye.
May 11: Prison Policy Initiative Blog
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Stark racial disparities in murder rates persist, even as overall murder rate declines Homicide rates for Black men, Black women and Native women are consistently higher than for other racial and ethnic groups.
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Actual violent crime has nothing to do with our fear of violent crime Comparing violent crime rates to public opinion data shows that there’s a long-standing disconnect between perception and reality.
Featured report
Punishing Poverty: The high cost of probation fees in Massachusetts
Our report finds that Massachusetts charges probation fees to the people who can least afford them. Our analysis shows that probation rates are highest in the lowest-income District Court jurisdictions.
Unpacking mass incarceration
Learn about the national prison crisis and how we can begin to turn the tide on mass incarceration. Then, drill down to your state.
If our work is new to you, you might want to check out our 2016-2017 annual report.
Recommended Reading:
Prison Gerrymandering Project
We are leading the movement to protect our democracy from the Census Bureau's prison miscount.
Research Clearinghouse
We curate a searchable database of 2,700+ original research reports, organizing each entry by topic and adding brief summaries.
Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie
Our report that shows the number of people who are locked up in all of the different types of facilities and why they are there.
Breaking Down Mass Incarceration in the 2010 Census:
State-by-State Incarceration Rates by Race/Ethnicity
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