News from Prison Policy Initiative
The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society.
OUR ROLE IN THE MOVEMENT
The Prison Policy Initiative's research and advocacy is at the center of the national conversation about criminal justice reform and over-criminalization. Because essential national and state level data is often completely inaccessible, the Prison Policy Initiative's insightful data analysis and powerful graphics help fill these gaps to bring in new supporters and help other movement leaders achieve their goals.
- Memo to Kansas City, Mo.: Time to rethink your plan to build a new jail
- Seeking shelter from mass incarceration: Fighting criminalization with Housing First
- High stakes mistakes: How courts respond to “failure to appear”
- The aging prison population: Causes, costs, and consequences
- Welcome, Emmett Sanders!
- Heat, floods, pests, disease, and death: What climate change means for people in prison
- New data reveals where people in Louisiana prisons come from
- Releasing people pretrial doesn’t harm public safety
- New resource: Contending with carveouts: how and why to resist charge-based exclusions in reforms
- Breaking news from inside: How prisons suppress prison journalism
- Unhoused and under arrest: How Atlanta polices poverty
- New data on HIV in prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic underscore links between HIV and incarceration
- New report: A blueprint for meaningful probation and parole reform in Connecticut — and other states
- What is civil commitment? Recent report raises visibility of this shadowy form of incarceration
- Welcome, Brian Nam-Sonenstein!
