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John,
This year marks the 50th year since the U.S. prison population began its unprecedented surge, documents a new report by The Sentencing Project. “ Mass Incarceration Trends [[link removed]] ” 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:
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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.
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Black
men
are
six
times
as
likely
to
be
incarcerated
as
white
men
and
Latinx
men
are
2.5
times
as
likely.
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One
in
7
people
in
prison
has
a
life
sentence.
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4.6
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.
Join us today at 2pm ET to discuss our new report and campaign, 50 Years and a Wake Up: Ending The Mass Incarceration Crisis In America. The campaign raises awareness about the dire state of our criminal legal system and proposes more effective crime prevention strategies for our country.
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[[link removed]] Ashley Nellis
Co-Director of Research
Email: [email protected] [[email protected]]
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The title for this campaign, 50 Years and a Wake Up: Ending the Mass Incarceration Crisis In America, was born out of a colloquial phrase that incarcerated people sometimes use to describe the length of their sentence, plus one day (e.g. “I have 20 years and a wake up”).
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