Jail populations dropped in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic but have now rebounded in many facilities to levels seen in early...

The statistics are familiar but remain startling: America’s incarceration rate per 100,000 is “roughly twice that of Russia’s and...

Significance Research on mass incarceration has documented its devastating consequences on incarcerated individuals, their families,...

AP News: California may allow more ill, dying inmates to leave prison California would allow more ill and dying inmates to be released...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two decades after her release from prison, Teresa Beatty feels she is still being punished. When her mother died...

The Bleak Future of Pregnancy Behind Bars After Dobbs By Audrey Nielsen | July 8, 2022 Thousands of pregnant women are incarcerated or...

Correctional administrators across the country are failing to curb the growing use of contraband cell phones in prisons and jails―some...

Arizona prison health care system ruled unconstitutional In an emphatic rebuke of Arizona's privatized prison health care model, U.S. ...

People who are incapacitated or nearing the end of their lives are the most expensive to incarcerate and the least likely to reoffend. ...

Conclusion The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that incarcerated people be prioritized for vaccination primarily...

A study of COVID-19 rates among inmates and staff at 101 US federal prisons compared with surrounding counties from May 2020 through...

This BJS report includes statistics on demographic, criminal justice, and suicide incident characteristics and link 2019 suicides with...

“It’s the same work I was used to in prison, but the difference is that, in prison, I was working for 10 cents a day.” Alvin Wilson is a...

The lethality of jails and prisons was underscored during the pandemic: according to JAMA, the infection rate for covid-19 was five...

THIS 50 STATE SNAPSHOT presents current laws, policies, and court actions related to access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD)...

Today, the Biden administration announced it would allocate $700 million for COVID-19 detection and mitigation activities in...

The Biden administration legal team has decided that thousands of federal convicts who were released to home confinement to reduce the ...

The challenges of interpreting vaccination data reported by carceral agencies The purpose of collecting vaccine data is twofold: for...

New data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that state prisons are seeing alarming rises in suicide, homicide, and drug and...

America’s prisons, jails and detention centers have been among the nation’s most dangerous places when it comes to infections from the ...