Washington University reported that prior estimates of annual incarceration costs of 80 billion is not even close to the actual price of our jails and prisons....
The United States has 25% of the world’s inmates and only 5% of the world’s population. A major cause of our incarceration crisis lies...
Between 1970–2008, our lock-up rate increased five hundred percent. The United States has more inmates and prisons than both Russia and China combined. We have approximately...
On April 23, Pres. Obama stated that the annual cost for incarcerating defendants and inmates has become too costly for the American economy. Annually, we spend...
Dear Bernie and Hillary, Eliminating private federal prisons and their lust for profit (at the expense of inmates and correctional officers) is one small step toward...
The proposed early release of 6,000 federal inmates is a major announcement, but still just one small step in reducing our national mass incarceration crisis....
Proponents of prison reform were somewhat pleased by your bill filed last week to end private prisons for federal, state, and local inmates. Private prisons...
