A residence for people with mental illness who would otherwise be incarcerated for felonies is finally on its way to…
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Facing the worst incarceration rate of Black people in the country (71 percent), Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announced Wednesday…
A Kansas City Commission is arguing for creative reforms to reduce crime, save taxpayers money without jailing defendants and putting…
During the height of the pandemic, prisons released thousands of inmates to home confinement to mitigate COVID-19 risks. In this Viewpoint column, Billy Sinclair argues that agencies should now work to expand and implement home wide scale home confinement to replace pretrial detention in jails across the country.
Louisiana had the highest per capita prison population in the United States in 2020, with an incarceration rate of 589 per 100,000 residents. Long sentences and other related issues bog down the state’s incarceration rate.
The analysis from the Prison Policy Initiative recommends that prisons should make visitation for families easier and ensure parents are incarcerated close to home.
The Tap In Center in St. Louis County is one example of legal help that supports underserved people with open warrants. It has saved hundreds from going to jail, so why aren’t more counties copying it?
Incarceration and climate change are often examined separately, but increasingly evidence suggests that policy makers and academics should address their combined negative effect on health.
Experts liken the potential surge in incarceration from the overturning of Roe to the similar results sparked by the War on Drugs that began in 1971.
Experts say Massachusetts should continue exploring ways to reduce incarceration further.