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Feb 8, 2023 · Along with recent prison population reductions, several states have seen significant declines in crime, sometimes outpacing nationwide crime trends. 10 For example, between 1999 and 2020, when New York more than halved its prison population, the state’s violent crime rate fell by 38% while the U.S. violent crime rate fell by 24%. 11 ...
- Nine Myths About Mass Incarceration
- The High Costs of Low-Level Offenses
- Acknowledgments
- About The Authors
- About The Prison Policy Initiative
The overcriminalization of drug use, the use of private prisons, and low-paid or unpaid prison labor are among the most contentious issues in criminal justice today because they inspire moral outrage. But they do not answer the question of why most people are incarcerated or how we can dramatically — and safely — reduce our use of confinement. Like...
Most justice-involved people in the U.S. are not accused of serious crimes; more often, they are charged with misdemeanors or non-criminal violations. Yet even low-level offenses, like technical violations of probation and parole, can lead to incarceration and other serious consequences. Rather than investing in community-driven safety initiatives,...
All Prison Policy Initiative reports are collaborative endeavors, but this report builds on the successful collaborations of the several versions of this reportwe have produced since 2014. For this year’s report, the authors are particularly indebted to Shan Jumper for sharing updated civil detention and commitment data, Emily Widra and Leah Wang f...
Wendy Sawyer is the Research Director at the Prison Policy Initiative. Along with helping direct the organization’s research priorities, Wendy is the author (or co-author) of several major reports, including Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie, Beyond the Count: A deep dive into state prison populations, All Profit, No Risk: How the bail indu...
The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative was founded in 2001 to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization and spark advocacy campaigns to create a more just society. Alongside reports like this that help the public more fully engage in criminal justice reform, the organization leads the nation’s fight to keep the prison system fr...
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Apr 2, 2024 · And the good news is that crime appears to be decreasing; in fact, violent crime has declined nationally since spiking in 2020. The United States can and must learn from the failure of mass incarceration.
Mar 14, 2022 · The report explains how the pandemic has impacted prison and jail populations, and pieces together the most recent national data on state prisons, federal prisons, local jails, and other systems of confinement to provide a snapshot of mass incarceration in the U.S. Highlights from the report include:
Despite substantial decreases in incarceration in a small number of states over the last two decades―and unprecedented reductions in 2020―the story of U.S. incarceration has been one of remarkable growth. Use the charts below to see which states have seen the biggest increases in overall jail and prison incarceration.
Apr 24, 2024 · The U.S. has seen a steady decline in the federal and state prison population over the last eleven years, with a 2019 population of about 1.4 million men and women incarcerated at year-end,...
May 21, 2024 · In 2022, more than three in five people (63%) sentenced to state prison had been convicted of a violent crime, 18 as compared with 1970 when 30% of people in prison had been convicted of violence. 19 Offense types among those convicted in the federal and state prison systems are presented below (Figures 6 and 7).
