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The U.S. criminal justice system disproportionately hurts Native people: the data, visualized We’re lucky when criminal justice data is broken down by race and ethnicity enough to see how Native populations are criminalized and incarcerated. Here’s a roundup of what we know.
October 8: Briefings
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‘I Refuse to Let Them Kill Me’: Food, Violence, and the Maryland Correctional Food System by The Maryland Food & Prison Abolition Project
October 8: Research Library: Conditions of Confinement
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Calling on the FCC to address the high cost of jail phone calls This week, the Prison Policy Initiative filed comments urging the FCC to take steps to lower jail phone costs and stop unfair practices by the correctional phone industry.
September 29: Prison Policy Initiative Blog
Featured report
The Gender Divide: Tracking women's state prison growth
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.
If our work is new to you, you might want to check out our 2020-2021 annual report.
Recommended Reading:
Five ways the criminal justice system could slow the pandemic
Quick action could slow the spread of the viral pandemic in prisons and jails and in society as a whole
The "services" offered by jails don't make them safe places for vulnerable people
Even in the best of times, jails are not good at providing health and social services.
The most important statistics from our work on policing
Racial disparities, bloated budgets, the criminalization of homelessness, and more.
Is social distancing possible behind bars?
No. It's even harder than on cruise ships or in nursing homes.