We're launching two new resources to track the actions of the Trump administration & fight back
Prison Policy Initiative updates for April 30, 2025 Exposing how mass incarceration harms communities and our national welfare
100 days of the Trump administration rolling back progress in the criminal legal system [[link removed]] Today, we released a new tracking tool that shows the full scale of the crisis unfolding in communities and behind bars, and a new resource page for folks looking to learn more about the repression and detention of undocumented immigrants. [[link removed]]
by Mike Wessler
With the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term complete, today, we released a new tracker on our website [[link removed]] that highlights the ways the administration is making the criminal legal system larger, harsher, and less effective. The new tool, which will be updated regularly, highlights the ways that the administration is eviscerating the rule of law, undermining solutions that reduce incarceration and improve community safety, encouraging the use of extreme sentences and harsh law enforcement tactics, making prisons and jails worse, and reducing transparency in the carceral system.
Actions from the administration have come so fast that it has been nearly impossible to keep track of them all. This new tool connects the dots on these actions to show that they’re not individual policy choices but instead part of a larger strategy that doubles down on the failed policies that created the nation’s mass incarceration crisis in the first place.
The tracker also explains that, while the federal government directly controls only a relatively small slice of the American carceral system [[link removed]], the administration is using its bully pulpit and control over federal spending to coerce state and local governments into expanding their criminal legal systems and making them even more brutal.
Additionally, today we released a new resource page on our website [[link removed]] [[link removed]]that focuses on the intersection of criminal and immigration law, often referred to as “crimmigration.” While we include immigration detention in our broad view of mass incarceration [[link removed]], it is not our primary area of expertise. For those looking to learn more about the crimmigration crisis, we have compiled resources from experts and organizations directly focused on immigration on this new page.
The new federal policy tracker is available at: [[link removed]]
The new crimmigration resource page is available at: [link removed]
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This new tracker and resource page are just the first steps in our organization’s commitment [[link removed]]to create tools, data, and resources for advocates, lawmakers, and journalists as they work to push back on this new crisis in America’s criminal legal system.
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Other news: President Trump said, “home-growns are next.” Here’s our response. [[link removed]]
During a recent appearance with the president of El Salvador, Donald Trump indicated he'll soon attempt to ship American citizens to foreign prisons without due process.
Here's our response [[link removed]] to these truly horrifying comments.
New national data help fill 20-year data gap: Offense data for people in local jails [[link removed]]
In this new briefing [[link removed]], we analyze data from the Jail Data Initiative. It offers the first detailed, national view of the criminal charges for which people are jailed since the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ 2002 survey. We look at the one-day jail population as well as bookings over a full year; ‘top’ charges versus all charges; and break down trends by sex, jail size, and region.
Prison gerrymandering is distorting Oklahoma's democracy. Lawmakers can fix this. [[link removed]]
In this brand new analysis [[link removed]], we look at how prison gerrymandering — a problem created because the Census Bureau counts incarcerated people in the wrong place — is giving a few residents a louder voice in government, at the expense of everyone else.
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Our work is made possible by private donations. Can you help us keep going? We can accept tax-deductible gifts online [[link removed]] or via paper checks sent to PO Box 127 Northampton MA 01061. Thank you!
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