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
Sentencing policy
- Only 12 states have taken legislative action to address family separation by incarceration (Created: 2023)
- A growing problem: People serving long sentences (Created: 2022)
- Black people are disproportionately serving sentences of life, life without parole, or “virtual life” (Created: 2020)
- Parole grant rates by state: Tremendous variation (Created: 2018)
- These ten states re-incarcerate the most people for technical violations of parole (Created: 2018)
- US less likely to use alternative sanctions to incarceration than other countries (Created: 2018)
- Some states made dramatic changes in probation in 2016 (Created: 2018)
- In Mississippi, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In North Carolina, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In Illinois, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- In Missouri, juveniles serving life without parole are disproportionately people of color (Created: 2016)
- Racial disparity in who is serving life without parole (Created: 2016)
- Racial disparity in who is serving life sentences (Created: 2016)
