Sentencing policy
- The federal government controls only about 13% of the carceral system in the U.S. (Created: 2025)
- Expanding Earned Sentence Credits — and applying them to everyone retroactively — has helped reduce Virginia's prison population (Created: 2024)
- Reforms to reduce prison populations have largely excluded the largest group: people convicted of offenses classified as "violent" (Created: 2024)
- Only 12 states have taken legislative action to address family separation by incarceration (Created: 2023)
- A growing problem: People serving long sentences (Created: 2022)
- Black people are disproportionately serving sentences of life, life without parole, or “virtual life” (Created: 2020)
- Parole grant rates by state: Tremendous variation (Created: 2018)
- These ten states re-incarcerate the most people 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)
