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I co-founded the Prison Policy Initiative to put the problem of mass incarceration — and the perverse incentives that fuel it — on the national agenda. Over the last 17 years, our campaigns have protected our democracy from the prison system and protected the poorest families in this country from the predatory prison telephone industry. Our reports untangle the statistics and recruit new allies.
But now, more than ever, we need your help to put data & compassion into the conversation. Any gift you can make today will be matched by other donors and go twice as far.
Thank you.
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But now, more than ever, we need your help to put data & compassion into the conversation. Any gift you can make today will be matched by other donors and go twice as far.
Thank you.
—Peter Wagner, Executive DirectorDonate
Sentencing policy
- A growing problem: People serving long sentences (Created: 2018)
- Parole grant rates by state: Tremendous variation (Created: 2018)
- These ten states return 69% of everyone sent back to prison for technical violations of parole (Created: 2018)
- US less likely to use alternative sanctions to incarceration than other countries (Created: 2018)
- Some states made dramatic changes in probation in 2016 (Created: 2018)
- In Mississippi, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In North Carolina, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In Illinois, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In Missouri, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- Racial disparity in who is serving life without parole (Created: 2016)
- Racial disparity in who is serving life sentences (Created: 2016)
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