When it comes to America’s high incarceration rate—now about five times what it was in 1970—there’s the Standard Story, and then there’s the truth. The Standard Story is the one that has ...

The report, released on April 25, also highlights that this figure surpasses even El Salvador's known highest incarceration rate of 1,086 per 100,000. The Uyghur Human Rights Project estimates ...

A new national epidemiological survey provides a demographic and diagnostic picture of people living with mental ill health ...

The incarceration rate is so high that the system is not making us any safer. Social scientists now tell us that the incarceration rate is so high that the system is not making us any safer.

“The ranking [as highest in the country] was very much of a surprise ... Hoskins said other factors like poverty and education often correlate with incarceration rates in the black community.

The Prison Policy Initiative, a national advocacy group and nonprofit organization, ranked Arkansas third highest in the U.S. for incarceration rates amid major jail expansion projects in the state.

“Innocence” reminds us that a prison sentence meted out to a parent—and the United States has the world’s highest incarceration rate for women—also, inevitably, affects their childre ...

According to a report published by the Prison Policy Initiative in 2021, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Each state incarcerates more people per capita than any other ...

It accounts for sentences of more than one year. States with a lower incarceration rate were given a higher ranking. The incarceration rate metric is one of many that factor into the overall Best ...

This metric measures the incarceration rate of juveniles ages 10 to the upper age limit for juvenile delinquency in a state per 100,000 in the population, using data from the Office of Juvenile ...