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Mass incarceration is a complex issue that cannot be solved by simply tweaking the system, but rather by addressing the root ...
"The United States is now a world leader when it comes to incarceration," Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and co-author ...
Opinion
Is mass incarceration a myth?
Some legal experts believe that many myths surrounding mass incarceration have been intentionally created by those who oppose not only incarceration, but punishment in general.
It’s time to end the era of mass incarceration.” In this, she is joined by Bernie Sanders and other Democrats, and also by Charles Koch, who wrote recently that “overcriminalization has led ...
Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" offers a reality check, writes Fatima Shaik.
America has a well-known mass incarceration problem. While the United States makes up less than 5% of the global population, our prison system holds approximately 20% of the world's total prison ...
Incarceration has lasting consequences. Many young people who have been incarcerated later struggle to achieve the basic ...
Since 2017, during the first administration of President Donald Trump, April has marked a time to reflect upon our history of mass incarceration that we might make needed changes for the future.
An event planned months ago by St. Catherine of Siena Parish’s prison outreach ministry gained momentum in the aftermath of recent executions in South Carolina and Louisiana.
It is the rotten core of mass incarceration, and it exists only because ... may stop someone based on "specific and articulable facts" that, "taken together with rational inferences," justify ...
She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on helping to end the harm mass incarceration causes for families. Artist Paul Rucker on bringing truth to light around American systemic racism Paul ...