{"id":3997,"date":"2015-11-30T12:44:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2015-11-30T12:44:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T16:44:43","slug":"fuel_the_movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/30\/fuel_the_movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Help us uncover the U.S. incarceration crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prison Policy Initiative has celebrated some huge victories recently: <a href=\"\/blog\/2015\/10\/22\/fcc-order\/\">historic prison and jail phone industry regulation<\/a>, making strides towards a national end to <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\">prison gerrymandering<\/a>, and reversing bans on in-person family visitation in <a href=\"\/blog\/2015\/01\/29\/multnomah-reverses-ban\/\">Oregon<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/visit_victory_austin\/\">Texas<\/a> jails.<\/p>\n<p>Here at the Prison Policy Initiative, we know that in order to keep winning victories for fairness and justice, the movement to end mass incarceration needs compelling and up-to-date information about the <a href=\"\/national\/\">U.S. incarceration crisis<\/a>. This year, we\u2019ve continued to fill critical gaps in the movement\u2019s knowledge with exciting <a href=\"\/reports.html\">reports<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Show that each state\u2019s rate of <a href=\"\/global\/women\/\">incarcerating women<\/a> is far out of step with the rest of the world.  Compared to other countries, most U.S. states lock up proportionally more women than any other country in the world. <\/li>\n<li>Uncover the data to show that even before their incarceration, the <a href=\"\/reports\/income.html\">people in prison are much poorer<\/a> than Americans of similar ages, race\/ethnicity and gender. This report was also the first to provide the pre-incarceration incomes of women in prison.<\/li>\n<li>\tReframe the entire debate about <a href=\"\/reports\/prisonvisits.html\">visitation and reentry<\/a> with new data that demonstrates that incarcerating people far from home actively discourages family visits.<\/li>\n<li>Provide critical new data to demonstrate the degree to which mass incarceration <a href=\"\/racialgeography\/\">transfers people of color<\/a> to predominantly white communities.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate that <a href=\"\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/jailsmatter\/\">jails, not just prisons, matter<\/a> in policy discussions because 11 million people cycle through jails, and the dramatic growth in the jail population is the direct result of policies that increasingly detain people awaiting trial.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These reports were made possible by the generosity of a small group of individual donors. Can you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razoo.com\/story\/Prison-Policy-Initiative\">make a gift today<\/a> so we can both advance specific campaigns for justice and produce critical research?<\/p>\n<p><b>To encourage you to give generously, some of our existing donors will match the first $19,000 that we receive in this appeal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We thank you for standing by our side in the fight for fairer and safer communities for everyone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you make a gift today to fuel the movement to end mass incarceration?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-3997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}