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Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Multitudes Caged for Failure to Pay Child Support, Driving Mass Incarceration by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 22, 2024, the federal court for the Eastern District of Kentucky sentenced Jesse Kipf to 81 months in federal prison for hacking into the Hawai’i Death Registry the year before. It …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Mass Incarceration Weakens All Workers by Eric Seligman, Brian Nam-Sonenstein by Eric Seligman and Brian Nam-Sonenstein One of the ways that mass incarceration traps people in poverty is by raising the stakes of unemployment for all workers, creating immense obstacles to organizing for better terms of employment. Rather than alleviate …
Former South Carolina Jailer Spared Prison After Testimony Fails to Convict Former Sheriff by A former South Carolina jailer who cut a plea deal and testified against his former boss is now the only one of the two to be convicted. But David Andrew Cook, 30, will not spend any …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Among World Nations, Individual U.S. States Near Top of List for Per Capita Incarceration by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In June 2024, the nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) ranked world incarceration rates as if each state in the United States was a separate country. The shocking but sadly unsurprising …
1994 Crime Bill Turns 30: A Legacy of Controversy by Thirty years later, 1994’s Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (VCCLEA) is still criticized by progressive politicians for stoking mass incarceration in the United States. Others, like former Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D)—who co-sponsored the bill as a …
After Florida Appellate Court Holds Crimes of ‘Attempt’ Eligible for Incentive Gain Time, Supreme Court Refuses Review by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On November 14, 2024, Florida’s Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to an appellate court ruling that exempted …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fines and Fees Destroy the Impoverished and Perpetuate Mass Incarceration by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney “I was young. I couldn’t pay for my ankle monitor. I went to jail because I couldn’t pay for my ankle monitor. And then they let me back out again on my ankle monitor …
PPI Releases 10th Anniversary Report on Mass Incarceration in the U.S. by On March 14, 2024, the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), a Massachusetts-­based non-­profit known for its data-­driven research on criminal justice, published its 10th annual report detailing how many people are locked up in the U.S. among all the …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Building Carcerality by Dana McKinney White, Lisa Haber-Thomson by Dana McKinney White and Lisa Haber-Thomson Architects and designers must reckon with their role in the past and future of mass incarceration. The U.S. carceral landscape is a loose network of sites of detention that includes jails and prisons, along with …
CoreCivic’s Successful Campaign for Mass Incarceration Continues in Tennessee by When he was picked to chair the Tennessee Republican Party’s annual Statemen’s Dinner on June 15, 2024—billed as “the largest political event of the year” in the Republican-­dominated state—Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison operator CoreCivic, brought his firm into …
Criminalizing Poverty Drives Mass Incarceration in Kentucky, Washington by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As a teen in the South, I often heard it said: “Being poor ain’t no sin.” But apparently it has become illegal. According to a report from the Vera Institute of Justice, Kentucky’s courts charge myriad …
Publication • January 15, 2024
Mass Incarceration-Myths and Facts-Aiming Reform at the Real Problems, Jan 2024 ~ Penn CareyLaW" UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series Research Paper No. 24-04 “Mass Incarceration” Myths and Facts: Aiming Reform at the Real Problems Paul H. Robinson UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL Jeffrey …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
U.S. Prison and Jail Population On the Rise by A report published in June 2023 by the Vera Institute of Justice revealed that the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. has risen quickly from lows reached during the COVID-19 pandemic though it hasn’t yet reached pre-pandemic levels. Between 2019 …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Illinois Program a “Lifeline for Incarcerated Moms and Their Kids” by In the U.S. in 2023, there are about 172,700 incarcerated women and girls, according to research and advocacy group Prison Policy Initiative. Many are among those prisoners—both male and female—who together have an estimated 2.7 million to 3.6 million …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
The Economist Calls for More Alternatives to Incarceration by The report addressed high rates of incarceration in England and Wales, though its lessons apply to the U.S., where incarceration rates are even higher. The countries’ shared inclination toward imprisonment reflects a desire to safeguard the public from potential threats, which …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Report: “Mass Supervision” Driving Mass Incarceration by A May 2023 report by Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) counts nearly 3.7 million Americans on probation or parole – nearly twice the nation’s total imprisoned population. This “mass supervision” brings the total number under control of the nation’s criminal justice system to about …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Defining ‘Carceral Deference’ by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “Carceral deference is a powerful principle built on faulty premises and with troubling and destabilizing effects,” declared Danielle C. Jefferis, an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law, in an article that appeared in the Fordham Law …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
The Gun of Incarceration by Cristian Farias by Cristian Farias New Jersey has been hailed for its approach to decarceration, including a bail reform law that some advocates see as a national model. And yet the state still supervises more than 120,000 of its residents under some form of probation …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Women Behind Bars, by the Numbers by On March 1, 2023, the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) released Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023, which found an astonishing number of U.S. women and girls – almost one million – are either incarcerated or on probation or parole. That included nearly …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Number Held in U.S. Prisons and Jails Dipped in Pandemic’s Second Year by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to a report released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS Report) in December 2022, “the number of persons under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional …
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