What’s New
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History of Incarceration and Its Association With Geriatric and Chronic Health Outcomes in Older Adulthood by Ilana R. Grossman et al
January 27: Research Library: Health impact
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Since You Asked: What’s next for prison and jail phone justice now that the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act is law? We explain what the new law accomplishes, how the FCC can — and should — enforce it, and why the fight for phone justice is not over.
January 19: Briefings
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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.
January 3: Briefings
Featured report
Executive Inaction: States and the federal government fail to use commutations as a release mechanism
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.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the criminal justice system
Our central hub of data, research, and policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in jails and prisons.
50 state incarceration profiles
All of our recent reports about prison/jail growth, racial disparities, and more, re-organized by state.
Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie
The U.S. incarcerates 1.9 million people, more than any other country. Where are they locked up and why? Read our report.
Exploitation in the criminal justice system
Companies and correctional facilities exploit captive markets. We expose them.