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25 mar 2023 · Prisoners Today, Neighbors Tomorrow. A new book “What’s Prison For?” explains how American prisons can better educate and rehabilitate the incarcerated. Share full article. Gov. Gavin...
11 mar 2024 · Today, there are more people serving a life sentence in prison than there were people in prison at all in 1970, according to a 2021 report from the Sentencing Project, an advocacy organization.
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.
8 lut 2023 · Expediting the end of mass incarceration requires reducing prison admissions and scaling back sentences for both those entering prisons and those already there. Past reforms have reduced the number of people imprisoned for a drug offense by 46% between peak year 2007 and 2020 (see Figure 5).
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.
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.
