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The aging prison population: Causes, costs, and consequences
New data from the Census Bureau reveals that the U.S. median age rose to a high of 38.9 years: an increase …
Expunging and Sealing Criminal Records
How Jurisdictions Can Expand Access to Second Chances by Kenny Lo What is a criminal record? A criminal record is …
Expungement: Criminal Records as Reentry Barriers
from National Institute of Justice Research has long established that, for individuals completing their criminal sentences, immediate challenges such as …
Prison Can’t Prevent Domestic Abuse. Transformative Accountability Programs Can.
Prison is a trauma-producing institution that does nothing to prevent those who have used violence from doing so again. From Truthout: …
REPORT: Private Prisons in the United States
From The Sentencing Project: read the full report
Don’t ‘Punish Them More.’ Effort Grows to Ease Job Barriers After Prison Release
From The Marshall Report: Promise Stewart and Santonio Ford met 18 years ago, on a prison bus headed to a halfway …
A Proposal to Reduce Unnecessary Incarceration
For decades, the federal government used its grant-making power to spur states to incarcerate more people and to impose longer …
Children Suffer When Parents Are Imprisoned
Imprisoning parents hurts children. It increases children’s likelihood of special education placement, being held back in school, or dropping out …
Youth Justice by the Numbers
Between 2000 (the peak year) and 2020, the number of youth held in juvenile justice facilities on a typical day …