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John,
Today we released an update to our “ Mass Incarceration [[link removed]] Trends" [[link removed]] fact sheet, which highlights the growth in state and federal prison populations since the early 1970s, and its far reaching effect on families, communities, and society as a whole.
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Report [[link removed]] findings include:
*
Nearly
two
million
people
are
living
in
prisons
and
jails
instead
of
their
communities.
Compare
this
figure
to
the
early
1970s
when
this
count
was
360,000
people.
*
Black
men
are
six
times
as
likely
to
be
incarcerated
as
white
men
and
Latinx
men
are
2.5
times
as
likely.
*
One
in
7
people
in
prison
has
a
life
sentence.
*
4.4
million
Americans
are
barred
from
voting
due
to
laws
restricting
this
right
for
those
with
felony
convictions.
The social, moral, and fiscal costs associated with the large-scale, decades-long investment in mass imprisonment cannot be justified by evidence of its effectiveness. Misguided changes in sentencing law and policy – not crime – account for the majority of the increase in correctional supervision.
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[[link removed]] Ashley Nellis
Co-Director of Research
Email: [email protected] [[email protected]]
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