What’s New
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Silent Injustice: Solitary Confinement in Virginia by ACLU Virginia
July 18: Research Library: Conditions of Confinement
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Families and advocates ask FCC to stop phone giant’s further expansion We argue that Securus’ history of misconduct should make it ineligible to acquire competitor ICSolutions.
July 17: Prison Policy Initiative Blog
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New report, Out of Prison & Out of Work, calculates the first unemployment rate for formerly incarcerated people Formerly incarcerated people overwhelmingly want to work, but they face huge obstacles in the job market.
July 10: Prison Policy Initiative Blog
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The Impact of Early Representation: An Analysis of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Pre-Trial Release Unit by California Policy Lab
July 9: Research Library: Pretrial Detention
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Parole Revocation in Connecticut: opportunities to reduce incarceration by Samuel Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic
July 9: Research Library: Probation and parole
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Officer-involved Shootings and Custodial Deaths in Texas by Texas Justice Initiative
June 25: Research Library: Police and Policing
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Texas Custodial Death Report Police, jail, and prison deaths 2005-2015 by Texas Justice Initiative
June 25: Research Library: Health impact
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Police Brutality Bonds How Wall Street Profits from Police Violence by Action Center on Race and the Economy
June 25: Research Library: Economics of Incarceration
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Incremental declines can’t erase mass incarceration Mass incarceration grew at breakneck speed, year after year. Our reforms need to be equally ambitious.
June 5: Prison Policy Initiative Blog
Featured report
States of Incarceration: The Global Context
This report and infographic directly situates individual U.S. states in the global context, and reveals that every region in the U.S. is out of step with rest of the world when it comes to incarceration.
We also have a parallel report focused on the incarceration of women.
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.
50 state incarceration profiles
All of our recent reports about prison/jail growth, racial disparities, and more, re-organized by state.
Intentional Prison Gerrymandering in Wyoming
Two incumbents avoid facing off by going 17 miles out of the way to use a large prison as a political pawn.
For-profit video visits in prisons & jails
This predatory industry wants to literally stand in between the incarcerated and their families by replacing human contact with computer chats.
Events
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