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Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
U.S. Prisoner Numbers Slowly Declining by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon New data released in December 2022 by the federal Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) showed a steady decline in prison population from 2011 to 2021 – nearly 25% overall. The number of people imprisoned today – …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Report Shows How Perverse Financial Incentives Drive Mass Incarceration and Inequity in Criminal Justice System by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A 72-page report by the Brennan Center for Justice published on July 6, 2022, shows how civil asset forfeiture, fines, fees and privatized community supervision shift the costs of …
Article • June 27, 2022
The Impact of Criminalizing Abortion on Prisoners and Mass Incarceration by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Over the course of its 233-year history, the United States Supreme Court (USSC) has reversed its prior decisions on occasion. Until now those reversals have generally been to expand constitutional rights for the populace, …
Publication • 2022
People Over Profit-The Case for Abolishing the Prison Financial System, 2022 People over Profit: The Case for Abolishing the Prison Financial System Sean Kolkey * The term “mass incarceration” is used to describe a crisis that, to many, is both abstract and distant. But for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, low-income, and …
Punitive Surveillance, 2022 COPYRIGHT © 2022 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW ASSOCIATION PUNITIVE SURVEILLANCE Kate Weisburd* Budget constraints, bipartisan desire to address mass incarceration, and the COVID-19 crisis in prisons have triggered state and federal officials to seek alternatives to incarceration. As a result, invasive electronic surveillance—such as GPS-equipped ankle monitors, smartphone …
Publication • 2022
Examining Prison Releases in Response to COVID - July 2022 Examining Prison Releases in Response to COVID: LESSONS LEARNED FOR REDUCING THE EFFECTS OF MASS INCARCERATION Kelly Lyn Mitchell Julia Laskorunsky Natalie Bielenberg Lucy Chin Madison Wadsworth July 2022 Acknowledgements This report was prepared with support from Arnold Ventures. We …
Publication • 2022
NCLC-Collection at All Costs-Examining the Intersection of Mass Incarceration, July 2022 COLLECTION AT ALL COSTS Examining the Intersection of Mass Incarceration and the Student Debt Crisis July 2022 PROTEC TBOR ROWER S .ORG Acknowledgments This report benefited from gracious review and input by Bradley Custer of the Center for American …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
To End Mass Incarceration, We Need to Bust the Myths That Prop It Up by James Kilgore An interview with Victoria Law by James Kilgore, Truthout.org One of the most pervasive myths about incarceration is that it makes a society safer. Now, a leading journalist who focuses on the criminal …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
California State Auditor’s Report Faults Counties for Waste and Poor Oversight of State Funds Used in “Public Safety Realignment” by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A report by the California State Auditor found that Los Angles, Alameda, and Fresno counties have failed to properly account for funds provided to them …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
The Enduring Life of Life Sentences by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian A major driver of mass incarceration is the abusive rate at which life sentences are imposed, as a report from the Sentencing Project examines. Referred to as “death by incarceration,” long-term sentences have become the lifeblood of …
Publication • 2021
Institute for New Economic Thinking, Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration, 2021 Working Papers Institute for New Economic Thinking 1neteconom1cs.org/wo rk1ngpapers Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration Peter Temin* Working Paper No. 155 April 8, 2021 ABSTRACT President Nixon replaced President Johnson’s War on Poverty with his War on Drugs in 1971. …
Publication • 2021
SPLC Action Fund, How Southern States Struggle With Long-Term Incarceration, 2021 LONG ROAD TO NOWHERE How Southern States Struggle with Long-Term Incarceration February 2021 SPLC IACTION @ About the SPLC Action Fund The SPLC Action Fund is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership …
Publication • 2021
The Sentencing Project, America's Enduring Reliance on Life Imprisonment, 2021 NO END IN SIGHT AMERICA’S ENDURING RELIANCE ON LIFE IMPRISONMENT THE SENTENCING - - PROJECT RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY FOR REFORM THE SENTENCING - - PROJECT RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY FOR REFORM For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street …
Publication • 2021
The Paid Jailer - How Sheriff Campaign Dollars Shape Mass Incarceration ,l \,'1 f i ~I ,(' J-' t ~l~,\ -, :i., ,~ ~;~ ~ :,'JI h· t I . f) , y ' ·t, -,·'"<','I' Ii'·. I t .... I '' { l ' :i~.l t'I t..,,i.'J J,'l I …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
The Punishment Economy: Winners and Losers in the Business of Mass Incarceration by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen &ldquo;This is an industry that profits from human suffering.&rdquo; &mdash;David Fathi, Director, ACLU&rsquo;s National Prison Project Starting with math may be a bad idea, but numbers help tell this story: …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Mass Incarceration Fueling Spread of COVID-19 in Local Communities by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Once behind bars, American prisoners often feel forgotten, thanks to an &ldquo;out of sight, out of mind&rdquo; attitude that turns the country&rsquo;s prisons and jails into human warehouses. Disregarding its impact on communities is dangerous …
Tougher Than the Rest: No Criminal Justice Reform “Miracle” in Texas by Marie Gottschalk by Marie Gottschalk For more than a decade now, politicians and policymakers &mdash; from Barack Obama to Donald Trump &mdash; have lauded Texas as a model for criminal justice reform. They have praised the Lone Star …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
New Book on Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Anyone who has done time in a jail or prison has seen that one lone person, or sometimes two, who sits at a dayroom table for hours on end with pencil and paper. A …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
The Role of Prosecutors in Mass Incarceration by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Mass incarceration has long been recognized as a serious and abiding problem in the American social landscape. Historically, mass incarceration has been attributed to a combination of the war on drugs, politically driven harsh sentencing, and the …
Publication • November 16, 2020
MASS INCARCERATION, MEET COVID-19 11/16/20 U. Chi. L. Rev. Online *4 MASS INCARCERATION, MEET COVID-19 Sharon Dolovich1 From the earliest days of the pandemic, it was clear that the novel coronavirus posed an outsized danger to the more than two million people locked inside America’s prisons and jails. Responding to …
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