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Why Youth Incarceration Fails: An Updated Review of the Evidence

Youth incarceration undermines public safety, damages young people’s physical and mental health, impedes their educational and career success, and often exposes them to abuse. See more

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Opioids: Treating an Illness, Ending a War

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No End In Sight: America’s Enduring Reliance on Life Sentences

WEBOne in 7 people in U.S. prisons is serving a life sentence, either life without parole (LWOP), life with parole (LWP) or virtual life (50 years or more), totaling 203,865 …

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Protect and Redirect: America’s Growing Movement to Divert …

WEBIn 2022, the Idaho legislature appropriated $6.5 million to create a network of eight new Youth Assessment Centers that will support youth with behavioral health …

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NOTHING BUT TIME

WEBhealth issues, and cognitive decline.10 Research focused on health differences between the incarcerated and non-incarcerated shows that those who are or have been …

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Nothing But Time: Elderly Americans Serving Life Without Parole

WEBBecause of the disadvantages affecting people in prison prior to their incarceration and the health-suppressing effects of imprisonment, incarcerated people are considered elderly …

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Youth Justice Under the Coronavirus – The Sentencing Project

WEBDespite almost two decades of declines in U.S. youth incarceration, The Sentencing Project revealed more than 1,800 incarcerated youth tested positive for …

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System Reforms to Reduce Youth Incarceration: Why We Must …

WEBOperated as a partnership between the state’s juvenile corrections and mental health agencies, the program has provided Functional Family Therapy, …

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Effective Alternatives to Youth Incarceration

WEBIncarceration damages young people’s health and well-being. It leads to poorer health in adulthood, thereby exacerbating the serious physical health problems …

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Ending Mass Incarceration: Safety Beyond Sentencing

WEBhour health centers are affordable alternatives to meet the needs of persons in crisis. Diversion programs can authorize police officers to connect people in crisis to health …

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Long-Term Sentences: Time to Reconsider the Scale of Punishment

WEBBut a key distinction is that a person’s health generally declines more rapidly in prison. 50 This is partly a function of the relatively inadequate access to health care …

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How Mandatory Minimums Perpetuate Mass Incarceration and …

WEBOvercrowded prisons create resource deficits for rehabilitation, mental and behavioral health needs, and education needs. Eliminating mandatory minimums would …

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Counting Down: Paths to a 20-Year Maximum Prison Sentence

WEBLong sentences also exacerbate many of the pains of imprisonment, including accelerated declines in health for which people receive substandard health …

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Ending 50 Years of Mass Incarceration: Urgent Reform Needed to …

WEBBy year end 2021, the U.S. prison population had declined 25% since reaching its peak in 2009. 1 Still, the 1.2 million people imprisoned in 2021 were nearly …

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Mass Incarceration Trends – The Sentencing Project

WEBMass Incarceration’s Reach. The social, moral, and fiscal costs associated with the large-scale, decades-long investment in mass imprisonment cannot be justified …

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The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons

WEBThe Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons. By Ashley Nellis, Ph.D. October 13, 2021. This report documents the rates of incarceration for …

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We change the way Americans think about crime and punishment

WEBSecond Look Network. Launched in 2023, the Second Look Network is a coalition of attorneys and mitigation specialists across the country providing direct legal …

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Incarcerated LGBTQ+ Adults and Youth – The Sentencing Project

WEBLGBTQ+ adults are incarcerated at three times the rate of the total adult population. LGBTQ+ youth’s representation among the incarcerated population is …

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One in Five: How Mass Incarceration Deepens Inequality and …

WEBIntroduction: How Socioeconomic Disparities Fuel Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Imprisonment. Experience with socioeconomic disadvantage is common …

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One in Five: Racial Disparity in Imprisonment — Causes and …

WEBIntroduction. Like an avalanche, racial disparity accumulates as people traverse the criminal legal system. The roots of this disparity precede criminal legal …

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Top Trends in Criminal Justice Reform, 2022

WEBChallenging Racial Disparity. Racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system have been extensively documented. California officials adopted Assembly …

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One in Five: Ending Racial Inequity in Incarceration

WEBOne in five Black men born in 2001 is likely to experience imprisonment within their lifetime, a decline from one in three for those born in 1981. Pushback from …

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