Report - Mass Incarceration Trends (via The Sentencing Project)
Report highlights the growth in state and federal prison populations since the early 1970s, and its far-reaching impact on individuals, families, communities, and society as a whole.
Your Taxes Are Being Used to Jail Legally Innocent People (via The Bail Project)
Americans spend billions in taxpayer dollars each year detaining people before trial, often because freedom depends on wealth rather than risk.
Report - Number of Incarcerated Women Over 7x as High as in 1980 (via The Sentencing Project)
Research on female incarceration is critical to understanding the full consequences of mass incarceration and to unraveling the policies and practices that lead to their criminalization. Today, The Sentencing Project released an updated report documenting over a 600% increase in women’s imprisonment in the United States between 1980 and 2023.