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Today, prisons and jails in America are in crisis. Incarcerated people are beaten, stabbed, raped, and killed in facilities run by corrupt officials who abuse their power with impunity.
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23 paź 2024 · Find the most up-to-date statisitcs and facts on prisoners in the United States.
12 lis 2024 · As of spring 2024, approximately 660,000 people were held in jails nationwide, a 10 percent decrease from mid-2019 but an increase of more than 100,000 people since 2020, a year that registered a significant population low due to pandemic emergency policies.
15 paź 2024 · Nine states and the BOP increased their total prison populations by over 1,000 persons from yearend 2021 to yearend 2022. State correctional authorities had jurisdiction over 1,039,500 persons sentenced to at least 1 year in prison in 2022, while the BOP had legal authority over 146,100 persons with similar sentences.
27 wrz 2023 · Today, we’ve added a rich new series of resources for our users of our work: First, we now have a downloadable spreadsheet of the most recently available incarceration data for people in state prisons and in local jails, by race and ethnicity and by sex, for all 50 states and D.C.
14 mar 2023 · How much of mass incarceration is a result of the war on drugs, or the profit motives of private prisons? How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed decisions about how people are punished when they break the law? These essential questions are harder to answer than you might expect.
14 mar 2023 · Today, the Prison Policy Initiative released Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023, its flagship report, which provides the most comprehensive view of how many people are locked up in the U.S., in what kinds of facilities, and why.
