For people leaving prison, finding a job is one of the strongest predictors of a successful return to community life.

One of Donald Trump’s first actions as president was to attack sanctuary cities, a move that will do nothing to decrease crime or build safer communities. In fact, crime rates are lower in counties ...

This November, millions of people will be denied the right to vote because of a prior felony conviction. If these disenfranchised Americans—an estimated 4 million, according to a 2024 Sentencing ...

It wasn’t easy finding work after more than 17 years in prison, but Vanessa Santiago persisted. She was eventually hired at a Lowe’s Home Improvement store and, after a few months on the job, was ...

Finding employment after incarceration was already hard, but bias in AI hiring tools is making the job search more difficult. Policymakers must act now to prevent further harm. For people leaving ...

Across the country, more than 1,300 counties have expanded existing jails or built new ones over the last 20 years—increasing the nation’s capacity to lock people up in jails by almost 40 percent. One ...

About the problem, the history of mass incarceration, trends and statistics ...

The rise of mass incarceration, spanning the 1970s to the early 2000s, was characterized by continuous, unified growth in both prison and jail populations across states and counties. In contrast, the ...

Every year, millions of people face severe consequences—including arrest, incarceration, fines and fees, and driver’s license suspensions—simply for missing a court date. Courts and practitioners ...

This webinar discusses some key factors in successfully setting up a satellite campus. Experts in the field discuss the importance of institutional support, creating learning communities that ...

We toured German prisons in Hameln and Berlin, Germany and what we saw was incredible. This is what a prison system looks like when it is centered around treating people humanely. It showed us that we ...