Mass Incarceration

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden unveiled a wide-reaching plan on Tuesday with goals to reduce prison populations, create a more just society, and increase community safety.

Bipartisan legislation in the Senate and House of Representatives would make prisoners eligible for Pell Grants, reversing a clause in the 1994 crime bill that stripped such eligibility.

Prisons and jails charge inmates substantial portions of their annual wages for basic necessities.

According to a new report, while the overall number of inmates in the U.S. is declining, some states are still seeing their prison populations rise.

The First Step Act has passed the House, but it's likely to face opposition from both sides of the aisle in the Senate.

Harvard University sociologist Bruce Western weighs in on the role of prisons in perpetuating human vulnerability.

A report released by the Corrections Accountability Project this week exposes over 3,100 corporations—including over 2,500 privately traded companies—that profit from the U.S. prison system.

Este artículo explica los problemas laborales relacionados con el uso de presos como trabajadores extremadamente mal pagados en las prisiones estatales y federales.

Author Paul Butler employs the chokehold—the maneuver as well as the metaphor—as, in his words, "a way of understanding how American inequality is imposed."

Highlighting racial disparities may be less effective, a new study finds.

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In 2011, the state transferred responsibility for a substantial group of inmates to the counties in order to downsize the overcrowded state-run facilities.

It's about time.

As the United States Justice Department plans to release about 6,000 non-violent drug offenders from federal prison, we talk with a researcher and former inmate about what should happen next.

The Federal Communication Commission's cap on absurd prison phone call costs underscores the predatory rent-seeking of the prison-industrial complex.

Our incarceration rate makes America exceptional. The public defenders who push back are some of our greatest patriots.