In Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform, Fordham University law professor John Pfaff takes aim at the conventional wisdom that the war on drugs and ...

Right now, more than two million people in the United States are behind bars. This is a human tragedy, but it is also a crisis with far-reaching consequences for communities across America. A recent ...

If mass incarceration were an effective way to fight crime, then one would expect to see a strong correlation between higher rates of incarceration and reduced crime. States have been running a live ...

Governments have historically used family separation as a tool to disempower specific racial and ethnic communities. Examples ...

Prop 36 proponents promised safety, accountability, and mass treatment. California’s getting more mass incarceration instead. It has been one year since Proposition 36 went into effect in California.

October’s cover of The Atlantic carries a headline that, even a decade ago, you probably never would’ve seen: “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” The 20,000-word article attached to ...

It’s not just the prisoner who suffers. The U.S. incarcerates a higher percentage of its citizens than any other country in the world. There’s little doubt among researchers that mass incarceration is ...

More than 2 million Americans–about a quarter of the total inmates in the entire world–are kept in prisons and jails in this country. The penal state is vast and largely hidden from view. But if you ...

More than 50 years have passed since the U.S. prison population surged, and advocacy organizers nationwide have since united to challenge mass incarceration. The U.S. will need continued leadership ...

Over the past week, prominent political figures from both sides of the aisle have suggested that the prohibition of marijuana is to blame for mass incarceration. Former House Speaker John Boehner, a ...

The rising tide of mass incarceration may slowly be subsiding. By the end of last year, the nation's overall prison population had dropped to below 1.5 million for the first time in more than a decade ...