HELP US END MASS INCARCERATION
The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 20 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Collateral consequences
- Formerly incarcerated people face alarming rates of joblessness (Created: 2022)
- Formerly incarcerated people earn far less than the general population (Created: 2022)
- Lesbian and bisexual women are overrepresented on probation and parole (Created: 2021)
- Black people in Connecticut are disproportionately impacted by homelessness and incarceration (Created: 2021)
- Most people with a history of incarceration and homelessness were homeless before going to prison (Created: 2021)
- Formerly incarcerated people are twice as likely to experience food insecurity (Created: 2021)
- Formerly incarcerated people have very high rates of homelessness, especially women and people of color (Created: 2020)
- Homelessness rates among formerly incarcerated people (Created: 2018)
- The revolving door of prison contributes to homelessness (Created: 2018)
- Gender, race, and ethnicity combine to put women of color at greater risk of homelessness (Created: 2018)
- Housing insecurity is nearly three times more common than homelessness alone (Created: 2018)
- Homelessness is part of the larger problem of housing insecurity (Created: 2018)
- For formerly incarcerated people looking for jobs, it's worse than the Great Depression (Created: 2018)
- The "prison penalty" in unemployment (Created: 2018)
- When they can find work, formerly incarcerated women of color are often relegated to part-time jobs (Created: 2018)
- Race and gender disparities in unemployment and job type among formerly incarcerated people active in the labor market (Created: 2018)
- Millions of children have fathers behind bars (Created: 2017)
