The Sentencing Project is committed to expanding voting rights in every state and works with state partners to provide data on state felony disenfranc...
This report from the Vera Institute of Justice summarizes state-level mandatory sentencing reforms since 2000, discusses their impact, and offers reco...
This U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report is the 29th in a series that began in 1981. It includes characteristics of the population such a...
According to new statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics on trends in admissions to prison and releases, the majority of states reduced both ...
States spend $50 billion a year on corrections, yet four out of ten prisoners wind up back behind bars within three years of release. In this short vi...
By Liam JulianAround 65 million Americans of working age have criminal records. Finding a job isn’t easy for anyone, but it’s especially difficult for...
Nebraska recently became the 11th state to pass “Ban the Box,” a law that removes questions about criminal records on state job applications. Enacted ...
