The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 24% of the world's prisoner population, while only…

The US constitutes only 5% of the global human population, yet houses a quarter of the world's prison population. With…

Approximately 2.2 million Americans currently live behind bars. Thirty-six states, with Washington, D.C., have higher rates of incarceration than the…

A recent Pew study found widespread support across party, age, and ethnic groups for shorter sentences and alternatives to incarceration…

The number of people incarcerated in private prisons grew by 1,664% from 1990—2009. Meanwhile, the two largest private prison companies,…

The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice found that, in California, blacks were imprisoned at 13x the rate of non-black…

The sad truth is, the racial makeup of the community you grew up in may have a lot to do…

This means the 28.1% poverty and 13.4% unemployment rates blacks face, along with high incarceration figures and a wage gap,…

Nationally, the incarceration rate for African-American men is 6.7 percent, but it is nearly double in Wisconsin, at 13 percent.…

This chart shows the 10 countries with the highest incarceration rates in the world. The United States has the highest…

In 2012, the estimated number or people with a severe mental illness in prison or jail in the U.S. was…

When it comes to throwing people in the slammer, these are the states that do it most frequently. Louisiana has…

While the US incarcerates a significantly higher proportion of its population than any other country, our imprisonment system is utterly…

A staggering number of Black citizens are in prison, according to this 2010 study. Even more shocking is the number…

The facts are pretty stark: kids with incarcerated parents are 2-3 times more likely to suffer from various mental illnesses…

"More than 60% of the people in prison are now racial and ethnic minorities. For Black males in their thirties,…