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Bookmark or Share- Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2024 | Prison Policy InitiativeCan it really be true that most people in jail are legally innocent? How much of mass incarceration is a result of the war on drugs, or the profit motives of private prisons? Have popular reforms really triggered a crime wave? These essential questions are harder to answer than you might expect.
- The History of Mass Incarceration | Brennan Center for JusticeYou’ve heard the phrase “mass incarceration.” But what, really, does it mean? Simply put, it is shorthand for the fact that the U.S. incarcerates more people than any nation in the world, including China. And the U.S. is also the leader in the prison population rate.
- What is Mass Incarceration - Institute to End Mass IncarcerationMass incarceration is a network of policing, prosecution, incarceration, surveillance, debt, and social control that is rooted in, builds upon, and reproduces economic and racial inequality and oppression.
- Ending 50 Years of Mass Incarceration: Urgent Reform Needed to Protect ...Expediting the end of mass incarceration requires reducing prison admissions and scaling back sentences for both those entering prisons and those already there. Past reforms have reduced the number of people imprisoned for a drug offense by 46% between peak year 2007 and 2020 (see Figure 5).
- Ending Mass Incarceration | Vera InstituteVera brings together experts, activists, and policymakers to end mass incarceration. We provide trusted data and research illustrating the harms of mass incarceration, help change state and local laws, and work with prosecutors to reduce incarceration and racial disparities.
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