The US prides itself on being a nation built on freedom, justice, and individual rights. And yet the evolution of its system of mass incarceration — a system that cannot be defined without reference ...

These millions have felt first-hand the consequences of mass incarceration.³ The Prison Population Increased by More Than 700% Since 1970 The United States did not always jail millions of its ...

Former White House advisor Steve Bannon pushed back forcefully Thursday against claims that President Donald Trump’s ...

Left-leaning think tanks never tire of talking about mass incarceration in the United States. It's particularly bad in states like Texas, Florida and New York, for example – or so we're told.

As I show in my new book, “Mass Incarceration Nation, How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover,” people tend to talk past one another when they discuss ...

The rising tide of mass incarceration may slowly be subsiding ... Trends project exploring the use of jails across the United States. Oliver Hinds is a Vera Institute researcher focusing ...

Democrats and their progressive allies are thus wrong that the United States has a mass-incarceration problem. While we should, of course, seek to improve the criminal-justice system’s imperfections, ...

"As the United States marks 50 years of mass incarceration, dramatic change is necessary to ensure another 50 do not follow," asserts the Sentencing Project report, entitled Counting Down ...

If mass incarceration ever existed, it was between 1930 and 1960. As crime worsened, governments were slow to react, getting a handle on the problem only well after the crime wave had begun. By then, ...

In this powerful and timely episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with civil rights attorney, writer, and abolitionist Alec Karakatsanis for an unflinching conversation about his ...

OXFORD, Ohio -- Criminal justice reform is an issue that is raging in the United States. The nation faces very alarming rates of mass incarceration and heavy racial disparities. According to the ...

Architects who want a more equitable prison system in the US should focus on designing spaces that can help reduce mass incarceration, write Lori Coppenrath and Marayca Lopez. Quite simply ...