Those delays add up. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration based on population. Part of it is due to an overwhelmed, underfunded system in both prosecutors' and public defenders ...

The road to mass incarceration in the United States specifically in Louisiana has an over 200-year-old legacy that connects ...

The juvenile incarceration metric is one of many that factor into the overall Best States rankings. See the Best States methodology for a detailed look at the data behind the analysis. 50 States ...

At the Kansas City summit, story after story of the heartaches caused by mass incarceration in the United States were leavened by tales of redemption—former inmates now thriving in the outside world.

Despite ongoing health issues, censorship and the repression that is part of a prison sentence, Jamal continues to write and speak about numerous issues related to mass incarceration, war ...

creating pieces that explore mass incarceration, police brutality and the continuing legacy of slavery in the United States. His career path was highly influenced by… ...

Ironically, it is the so-called land of the free that houses the highest prison population per capita in the OECD. With rates that have long been significantly higher than that of their closest ...

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June 2011 marked the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of ...

Prisons far and wide. Mass incarceration is a feature in America the beautiful. Nearly 2 million people are behind bars at any given time in the United States, amounting to roughly 1% of the adult ...