In California, the prison system and the public university system budgets are allocated from the same fund, pitting the two…

The United States spends more on prisons than education every year. Even though crime rates have continually fallen since the…

Unfortunately this means that for every 100 rapes, 97 rapists will walk free without spending a single day in prison.…

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…

This chart shows the estimated number of male inmates held in custody in state or federal prisons or in local…

The number of prisoners under state and federal jurisdiction in the U.S. has declined for three straight years. Not only…

Serving hard time is, without a doubt, a life-altering experience, oftentimes not for the better. The question then becomes: is…

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

The number of women in prison "is increasing at nearly double the rate for men," according to The Sentencing Project.…

There are a little over two hundred thousand Americans currently incarcerated within the United States. The disparity between men and…

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…

Americans released from prison are rearrested at shockingly high rates. One reason for this is employment discrimination, which makes it…

America has the unfortunate record of having the highest rate of incarceration among developed nations. But how large, exactly, is…

Despite the recent media attention given to the New York prison break, such successful escape attempts have decreased dramatically over…

These are the races that populate our prison systems. While the majority of inmates are Caucasian, a disproportionately large percentage…

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

Statistically, based on the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report’s Supplemental Homicide Reports

(1976-2007) the race of the subject could change the…

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…

This shocking statistic, that a full 70% of inmates in California state prison have spent time in the foster care…

The number of tuberculosis cases reported in correctional facilities dropped 66 percent from 1994 to 2012. From a high of…

The number of under 18 year olds in detention in the United States has been declining since the beginning of…

With 1% of Americans behind bars and parts of America building prisons at a faster rate than they are building…

SB 678 was a 2009 law in California that has dramatically reduced recidivism, saving the state $179 million -- and…

In 2011, the National Gang Intelligence Center determined that the neighborhood-based gang was the most dangerous type of gang in…