The incarceration rate in the U.S. is the world's highest, with mass incarceration statistics revealing that nearly 1% of the adult population is behind bars.¹ Keeping so many people imprisoned ...

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When America Abandoned ‘Mass Incarceration’ Eliminating state mental hospitals hasn’t eliminated mental illness. Oct. 28, 2022 1:39 pm ET Share ...

Cooper is the author of "How America Works … and Why it Doesn't." A huge number of Americans - disproportionately those from underprivileged backgrounds - are trapped in a senseless system of ...

Some legal experts believe that many myths surrounding mass incarceration have been intentionally created by those who oppose not only incarceration, but punishment in general.

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Mass Incarceration Is a Cruel, Expensive, Ineffective Approach to Addressing Crime This op-ed points out that there are so many things we don't question about mass incarceration.

Data show mass incarceration, overall, is decreasing. But the public, leaders wouldn't know it Unlike vital information related to employment trends, criminal justice stats take years to be ...

OPINION: The show breaks down how Public Enemy's "Black Steel in the Hours of Chaos" perfectly captures the horrors of mass incarceration. Also Read:The impact of crack dealers on Black America is ...

Attorney details the problems with mass incarceration and the criminal justice system, and why fundamental reform is needed.

We don’t have a “mass incarceration problem.” And I say this not because it isn’t true that we incarcerate more than a lot of other Western European democracies to which we’re often ...

But an often-ignored subject likewise threatens our democracy: America’s brutal, inhumane — and disturbingly bipartisan — approach to mass incarceration.