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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.
2 mar 2024 · Prison populations across the country are creeping back up after years of slow decline, and a brief dramatic decrease tied to the pandemic. Last week, Axios reported that the U.S. prison population increased by just over 2% between 2021 and 2022, the first increase in over a decade.
25 lip 2024 · President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill strengthening oversight of the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons after The Associated Press exposed systemic corruption and abuse in the prison system.
6 sty 2024 · The White House has threatened to veto any law that sends people who were released under the CARES Act back to prison. In a rare bipartisan effort, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, a Democrat, and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a Republican, are co-sponsoring legislation that would revive the defunct Elderly Offenders program for older prisoners.
25 mar 2023 · As of 2022, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, almost two million people were incarcerated in 1,566 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 2,850 local jails, 1,510 juvenile correctional ...
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.
11 kwi 2024 · Approximately 25% of incarcerated women are in prison for drug-related crimes, compared to 12% of men, according to the 2023 report. Ohio — an epicenter of the opioid crisis — is among the states that experienced the most dramatic jump in female prisoners.
