We've updated the data tables and graphics from our 2017 report to show just how little has changed in our nation's overuse of jails: too many people are locked up in jails, most detained pretria...
Some of the questions we receive most often about communication policies (and rates) in local jails can finally be answered, thanks to two new resources from Michigan and Minnesota.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/04/11/michigan-minnesota/
Updated data visualizations illustrate the scale of — and disparities within — mass incarceration.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/04/01/updated-charts/
The United States' massive practice of incarceration goes almost entirely unchecked. This new resource aims to change that by centralizing news, educational resources, legislative updates, and mo...
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/03/25/prison_oversight/
Please welcome our new Digital Communications Strategist, Regan Huston!
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/03/18/welcome_regan_huston/
New report shows prison and jail populations rebounding after the pandemic and warns of the return of so-called “tough-on-crime” laws
Report shows the unique and troubling role that jails play in women’s incarceration.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/03/05/womens_pie_2024/
We’ve drilled down into 2019 data to show prison and jail releases by sex in each state and made our best estimates of how many women and men were released from prisons and jails nationwide in ...
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/02/28/releases-sex-state/
Communities across the country have been told that investing in new jail construction is the only way to solve old policy problems, but arguments for new jails can leave them with a billion-dolla...
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/02/20/cautionary_jails/
Oregon is in danger of repealing one of the most important criminal legal system reforms of recent years: here’s why the state should keep Measure 110 intact.