By making laws that restrict the rights of formerly incarcerated individuals, their sense of belonging and value in society ...

The countries with the highest incarceration rates are El Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, and the United States.

Those delays add up. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration based on population. Part of it is due to an overwhelmed, underfunded system in both prosecutors' and public defenders ...

While in middle school, I spent many weekends in the car, making the eight-hour journey from Maryland to rural upstate New ...

At the Kansas City summit, story after story of the heartaches caused by mass incarceration in the United States were leavened by tales of redemption—former inmates now thriving in the outside world.

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… ...

Despite ongoing health issues, censorship and the repression that is part of a prison sentence, Jamal continues to write and speak about numerous issues related to mass incarceration, war ...

Ironically, it is the so-called land of the free that houses the highest prison population per capita in the OECD. With rates that have long been significantly higher than that of their closest ...

June 2011 marked the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of ...

College of the Canyons professors Katie Coleman and Mehgen Andrade will deliver the scholarly presentation “Behind Bars: ...