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 23 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
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Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Collateral consequences
- Homelessness, mental illness, substance use disorders, and criminalization are deeply connected problems that housing can help with (Created: 2023)
- Formerly incarcerated people typically earn well below the income requirements for public housing assistance (Created: 2023)
- Formerly incarcerated people earn far less than the general population (Created: 2022)
- Formerly incarcerated people face alarming rates of joblessness (Created: 2022)
- Lesbian and bisexual women are overrepresented on probation and parole (Created: 2021)
- Formerly incarcerated people are twice as likely to experience food insecurity (Created: 2021)
- Most people with a history of incarceration and homelessness were homeless before going to prison (Created: 2021)
- Black people in Connecticut are disproportionately impacted by homelessness and incarceration (Created: 2021)
- Formerly incarcerated people have very high rates of homelessness, especially women and people of color (Created: 2020)
- Homelessness is part of the larger problem of housing insecurity (Created: 2018)
- Housing insecurity is nearly three times more common than homelessness alone (Created: 2018)
- Gender, race, and ethnicity combine to put women of color at greater risk of homelessness (Created: 2018)
- The revolving door of prison contributes to homelessness (Created: 2018)
- Homelessness rates among formerly incarcerated people (Created: 2018)
- Race and gender disparities in unemployment and job type among formerly incarcerated people active in the labor market (Created: 2018)
- When they can find work, formerly incarcerated women of color are often relegated to part-time jobs (Created: 2018)
- The "prison penalty" in unemployment (Created: 2018)
- For formerly incarcerated people looking for jobs, it's worse than the Great Depression (Created: 2018)
- Millions of children have fathers behind bars (Created: 2017)
