What’s New
-
“You want to be in the hell you already know”: How prison transfers regularly upend incarcerated people’s lives
Moving people between prisons can improve their access to treatment, programs, and visitation — but transfers can also be deeply traumatizing, disruptive, and destabilizing. In this briefing, we use transfer records and interviews with dozens of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers to examine how often people are moved, why they’re moved, and how this little-discussed aspect of prison life impacts them.
June 5: Briefings
-
Nevada passes improvements to prison gerrymandering reform law
With Governor Governor Joe Lombardo’s signature, and the legislature’s unanimous support, the state improves its prison gerrymandering reforms.
June 3: Prisoners of the Census Blog
-
Uprooting Policing:
What Police Abolitionists Teach Us About Family Policing by Emma Ruth
June 3: Research Library: Families
Featured reports
Where people in prison come from: The geography of mass incarceration
Mass incarceration, state by state
Learn about the national prison crisis and how we can begin to turn the tide on mass incarceration. Then, drill down to your state. Be sure to also check out our pages focused on D.C., and the incarceration of Native people.
If our work is new to you, you might want to check out our 2023-2024 annual report.
Recommended Reading:
Tracking Trump's criminal legal system moves
The Administration is making America's criminal legal system harsher, less effective, and even more unjust.
Research Library
We curate a searchable database of 4,000+ original research reports, organizing each entry by topic and adding brief summaries.
Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie
The U.S. incarcerates nearly 2 million people. Where are they locked up and why? Read our report.
Bad Behavior
This national report explains how prison disciplinary policies manufacture misconduct and severly punish incarcerated people.
Events
- June 11, 2025:
Join us at 2:00 pm ET on June 11th, 2025, as we bring together a panel of activists who have pushed back against jail expansion proposals in Atlanta, Georgia, Sacramento, California, and Oahu, Hawai’i. We’ll discuss how arguments for new jail construction have shifted over time, go over strategies and tools for responding to these arguments, and talk about how our advocacy department can help support efforts to challenge new jail construction in your area.
Not near you?
Invite us to your city, college or organization.