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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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How journalists can investigate prison discipline policies — and why these...
This week, we released Bad Behavior: How prison disciplinary policies manufacture misconduct, the first 50-state analysis of prison disciplinary systems published in decades. Here, we discuss how...
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New research finds higher county jail rates have deadly consequences for...
The health, social, and economic harms of incarceration extend far beyond the people behind bars to their children, families, and entire communities, as a large body of research has shown. New...
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Estimating the impact: How many people are excluded from Fair Housing...
You’ve probably never heard of the Thurmond Amendment, but for almost 40 years, it has been quietly enabling landlords to deny housing to people based solely on a past conviction for selling drugs —...
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Jailing the homeless: New data shed light on unhoused people in local jails
Local jails, which hold one out of every three people behind bars, have become America’s misguided answer to problems faced by the most vulnerable people, like poverty and homelessness. Despite jails’...
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New report reveals successes and limitations of medications for opioid use...
Substance use disorders are among the most pressing and least addressed medical conditions facing incarcerated people. While half of people in state prison have substance use disorders — far outpacing...
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