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Prisons and jails will separate millions of mothers from their children in 2021
This report is has been updated with a new version for 2022. This Mother’s Day — as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to put people behind bars at serious risk — nearly 150,000 incarcerated mothers will...
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New data: State prisons are increasingly deadly places
The latest data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) on mortality in state and federal prisons is a reminder that prisons are in fact “death-making institutions,” in the words of activist...
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Smoke and mirrors: A cautionary tale for counties considering a big, costly...
We’ve called on counties before to ask the right questions before deciding to build a costly new jail, because history has shown that expanded jails are quickly filled with people who wouldn’t have...
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New data: The changes in prisons, jails, probation, and parole in the first...
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has released a lot of new data over the past few weeks that help us finally see — both nationally and state-by-state — how policy choices made in the first year...
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Untangling why prison & jail populations dropped early in the pandemic
Sections Crime and arrests Jail bookings & pretrial detention Court slowdowns Prison admissions Keeping admssions low Last week, we released the latest edition of our Mass Incarceration: The Whole...
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Prisons and jails will separate millions of mothers from their children in 2022
This Mother’s Day — as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to put people behind bars at risk — nearly 150,000 incarcerated mothers will spend the day apart from their children.1 Over half (58%) of all...
View ArticleWhat the end of Roe v. Wade will mean for people on probation and parole
With several states preparing to criminalize abortion now that Roe v. Wade is over, and some states talking about criminalizing traveling out of state to get an abortion, it’s worth remembering that...
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Since you asked: How many people are released from each state’s prisons and...
The key role of reentry programs and services in the success of people released from prisons and jails cannot be overstated. People returning to their communities from even relatively short periods of...
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Why did prison and jail populations grow in 2022 — and what comes next?
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) recently released its annual reports on prison and jail populations in 2022, noting that the combined state and federal prison populations had increased for the...
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Two years after the end of Roe v. Wade, most women on probation and parole...
June 24 marks two years since the Supreme Court stripped Americans of their constitutional right to abortion. The court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization permitted state...
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