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 ...

Pennsylvania is ranked third in the nation for people serving sentences for life without parole, according to a new Sentencing Project report. Pennsylvania is one of only two states that has a ...

Create a moral panic. Blame it on certain people. Commence monitoring. Deploy droves of security agents. Detain or remove the ...

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… ...

When this happened in concert with Democrat-run states — often driven by concern about the disproportionate numbers of Black prisoners in custody — the mass incarceration tide in the US began ...

Roosevelt signed an executive order that enabled the forced removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans in camps located mostly in the western United States. Many were citizens.

A long-term study of youth who have experienced incarceration in British Columbia has found that those who have spent more time in custody showed a decrease in reoffending following release from ...

Credit: Courtesy photo The United States continues to incarcerate the ... at Bowie State University with the stated goal of reducing mass incarceration in Maryland. They brought together dozens ...

Professor Jennifer Lackey has offered courses on ethics and mass incarceration at an Illinois maximum-security prison. When philosophy professor Jennifer Lackey lectures on the death penalty in her ...

America has the highest incarceration rate in the world ... are the single most important cause of the prison boom in the United States,” and minorities are disproportionately convicted of ...