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10 ways that mass incarceration is an engine of economic injustice
Table of Contents Mass incarceration traps low-income communities in poverty #1: Sentencing poor people to deeper poverty #2: Impoverishing the families and communities of incarcerated people #3:...
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New research links medical copays to reduced healthcare access in prisons
In most states, people incarcerated in prisons must pay medical copays1 and fees for physician visits, medications, dental treatment, and other health services. While these copays may be as little as...
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Mass incarceration is on the ballot
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View ArticlePrison Banned Books Week: Books give incarcerated people access to the world,...
Books have long served as a bridge to the outside world for incarcerated people. They allow people cut off from their normal lives — and often from their families — to engage with thinking and ideas...
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New, expanded data on Indian country jails show concerning trends extend to...
Native people are consistently overrepresented in the criminal legal system, accounting for only 1% of the total U.S. population but 3% of the incarcerated population.1 More specifically, the national...
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California may take a big step backwards towards more incarceration with...
This November, Californians will see an initiative on their ballots proposing a way to curb retail theft and drug use. In reality, this measure would undo a decade of progress towards unraveling mass...
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Talking turkey about the death penalty: outgoing governors and the president...
Every November, it has become a light-hearted tradition for the president and some governors to “pardon” turkeys before the Thanksgiving holiday, sparing them from the dinner table. But when the...
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Who is jailed, how often, and why: Our Jail Data Initiative collaboration...
Millions of people are arrested and booked into jail every year, but existing national data offer very little information about who these people are, how frequently they are jailed, and why they are...
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Why jails and prisons can’t recruit their way out of the understaffing crisis
Prisons and local jails struggled with staffing well before the COVID-19 pandemic spurred a national labor shortage, and they haven’t bounced back since. Recruitment and retention are still a high...
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Despite fewer people experiencing police contact, racial disparities in...
Almost 50 million people reported contact with police in 2022, reflecting the fewest number of police encounters with the public since 2008. But just because the sheer number of police interactions...
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