HELP US END MASS INCARCERATION
The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 22 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
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Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Court system
The judicial process and systems
- Explaining the changes in prison and jail populations in 2022: Criminal courts are catching up with backlogs from the pandemic (Created: 2023)
- Only a handful of states have eliminated or severely limited the use of commercial bail bonds (Created: 2022)
- What significant changes did pretrial reform have in Harris County? (Created: 2022)
- What pandemic-related changes caused prison and jail populations to drop in 2020? (Created: 2022)
- Slowdowns in state courts contributed to the drop in incarceration from 2019 to 2020 (Created: 2022)
- The number of active "pending" cases in state criminal courts has grown exponentially since the early pandemic (Created: 2022)
- The Prison Litigation Reform Act slammed the courthouse door (Created: 2021)
- The Prison Litigation Reform Act meant an end to active court oversight of prisons and jails (Created: 2021)
- Rise of the “prosecutor politician” (Created: 2017)
- The path from arrest to pretrial detention (Created: 2016)
