Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

FWD.us released a report finding that mass incarceration in the US is driving families into poverty and limiting economic mobility, with families spending an average of $4,195 annually on ...

Mass incarceration statistics demonstrate the troubling reality of how many people in the U.S. are behind bars. ... The Growth of Incarceration in the United States; Exploring Causes and Consequences.

The growth in mass incarceration began with a crime spike. Homicides, which averaged around 5,000 per year in the 1960s , shot up in the 1970s, reaching over 24,000 in 1991.

Mass incarceration is a public health crisis that harms the health and well-being of incarcerated people, corrections staff, ...

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 ...

And yet the evolution of its system of mass incarceration — a system that cannot be defined without reference to shocking racial disparities — seems to directly contradict these founding principles.

The rising tide of mass incarceration may slowly be subsiding. By the end of last year, the nation's overall prison population had dropped to below 1.5 million for the first time in more than a decade ...

"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: Paths ...

Everything You Don’t Know About Mass Incarceration. Contrary to the popular narrative, most American prisoners belong behind bars ... Democrats and their progressive allies are thus wrong that the ...

One of the biggest problems with mass incarceration and very lengthy sentences, however, is that they don't seem to actually reduce crime—at least not at the level people think.

What parole can teach us about fixing mass incarceration Detainees wait in a cell for an appearance in Sacramento County Superior Court in Sacramento, Calif., on Nov. 1, 2016.