Tag: mass incarceration

Legal advocates and public defenders say a detained woman spent more than 24 hours in custody before giving birth on a courtroom bench in handcuffs, exposing what protesters describe as dangerous and degrading conditions in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

Los Angeles County is laying out a vision for reducing incarceration and providing care that could have national significance.

“This is the story of more than just one individual … but [of] tens of thousands of men and women across the country.”

Private prisons are profiting from America's mass incarceration problem.

Inmates inside Florida's prisons are fighting back against "modern day slavery."

We must put an end to this shameful vestige of our country’s worst deeds.

Ultimately, the social cost of mass incarceration is 11 times higher than total spent on the corrections system itself.

Officials who built their careers on mass incarceration are now calling for this madness to end. Could this be a turning point for the prison-industrial complex?

The way our country imprisons a staggering number of our people is wrong. Instead of mass incarceration, we need to stop wasting human talent and start opening doors to opportunity.