Kara Gotsch, Executive Director of The Sentencing Project, discusses the ongoing challenges and progress of ending mass incarceration in the US, advocating for capping sentences at 20 years and ...

GVA data shows mass shootings increased after May 2020, compared with trends in previous years. Shootings doubled in July 2020 compared with the year before, as researchers noted in the journal JAMA ...

"The United States is now a world leader when it comes to incarceration," Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and co-author Janie Nitze noted last year in their book Over Ruled. They added that ...

Wong Kim Ark in 1898, when the court ruled that a child born in San Francisco to Chinese parents, neither of whom were U.S. citizens, was indeed a citizen of the United States.

Despite significant progress in the US juvenile justice system, some states are regressing towards harsher practices due to ...

Mass Incarceration The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee ...

The United States continues to incarcerate the largest percentage of its population of any country in the world, and most of those who are incarcerated are Black and Latino.

Mass incarceration in the United States has created a public health crisis of incalculable magnitude that demands bold, relentless, and transformative action from health care professionals.

The United States currently has the world’s largest prison population. With over 2.2 million people behind bars, it is both the largest number and highest concentration around the globe.

Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration, by Rachel Elise Barkow, Harvard University Press, 320 pages, $35 "The United States is now a world ...