Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s Juneteenth announcement of $400 million in state funds to historically underserved communities isn’t sitting well with some Republican lawmakers, who view the initiative as ...

Tens of thousands of people were jailed as part of President Nayib Bukele crackdown on gangs. Some police officers now admit ...

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

Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration Rachel Elise Barkow. Harvard Univ, $35 (320p) ISBN 978-0-674-29422-6 ...

Moreover, relative to the US-born, immigrants’ incarceration rates have declined since 1960: immigrants today are 60% less likely to be incarcerated (30% relative to US-born whites). This relative ...

Professor Todd Clear, a leading scholar on mass incarceration, discusses his research on the social consequences of incarceration and argues for a reimagining of justice that centers community health ...

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

Todd Chrisley of 'Chrisley Knows Best' fame hopped on Savannah Chrisley's podcast to discuss the incarceration rates in the US. Here's what he said after his presidential pardon. In 2022, reality ...

Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in place by the world's largest jailer: the United States. Drawing on a growing body of ...

A new study highlights the high price of incarceration, and says the annual total cost to families of Americans behind bars is nearly $350 billion. The study from the nonprofit FWD.us says one in two ...