While the First Step Act and a handful of legislative changes at the state level have furthered the...
Prison
Impact Justice Launches First-Ever Comprehensive Study on U.S. Prison Food
Researchers at Impact Justice have launched a first-of-its-kind study on prison food in the U.S...
Counting Prison Inmates Differently Could Shift Political Power to Cities
By Tim Henderson More states plan to count state prisoners as residents of their home communities...
Cutting in-Person Jail Visits Doesn’t Keep Contraband Out, Says the Prison Policy Initiative
On Monday, December 3, at San Quentin State Prison, 53-year-old Herminio Serna, a death row inmate...
20,000 Lost Years and $2.2 Billion in Government Payouts – The Cost of Wrongful Convictions in America
Exonerated Americans have officially spent a total of more than 20,000 years in prison for crimes...
Privatized: 15 Years of For-Profit Prison Growth
From 2000 to 2016, the United States’ use of controversial for-profit prisons to lock up...