Aleks Kajstura | November 17, 2015

Alternative to incarceration? New report critiques electronic monitoring

Peter Wagner | October 7, 2015

Are private prisons driving mass incarceration?

Private prisons are more like a parasite on the publicly-owned prison system, not the root cause of mass incarceration.

Peter Wagner | September 29, 2015

What would prison telephone justice look like?

What would effective state executive or legislative action for prison and jail telephone justice look like?

Peter Wagner | September 3, 2015

Mass incarceration and the presidential candidates

Blaming the 1990s public for mass incarceration is too simple of an answer.

Peter Wagner | August 14, 2015

Jails matter. But who is listening?

Most of the people who go to prison or jail in a year go to jail, so why don't policymakers pay more attention to jails?

Peter Wagner | August 12, 2015

Are campaign contributions the new “commission”? Analysis of Securus’s contributions in Sacramento

Why is Securus one of the largest campaign contributors to the Sacramento County Sheriff?

Peter Wagner | August 11, 2015

Probation: The nicest sounding way to grease the skids of mass incarceration

Probation shouldn't be ignored: It's used too often and sets up too many people to fail.

Peter Wagner | August 10, 2015

Using the federal budget to fuel decarceration

The 2016 presidential candidates shouldn't underestimate the federal budget's power to guide state justice policy.

Rachel Gandy | August 7, 2015

Explaining Texas’ overnight prison boom

By drastically slowing releases from prisons, Texas policymakers ensured that the state’s prison population would more than double in only five years in the 1990s. Decades later, Texans are still dealing with the consequences.

Rachel Gandy | July 10, 2015

In prisons, Blacks and Latinos do the time while whites get the jobs

The Attica prison rebellion resulted from a racial/ethnic disparity between the incarcerated and the staff. Decades later, that disparity still hasn't changed.