The Cost of Solitary Confinement: Why Ending Isolation in California Prisons Can Save Money and Save Lives by Berkeley Underground Scholars and Immigrant Defense Advocates
What communities do people who are incarcerated come from? It's a simple question, with huge implications, that until recently was impossible to answer. However, thanks to recent reforms to end prison gerrymandering in more than a dozen states, the data is finally available to answer it. In this series of reports, we examine the data and make it available to the public to better understand how mass incarceration harms communities and what can be done about it.
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.