People 50 and older make up more than 22 percent of the United States’ prison population, or over 261,000—and growing. (Andrew Burton / Getty Images) Rita De Anda has spent decades in prison ...

The United States has 5% of the world’s population but has 20% of the world’s prisoners. Land of the free indeed! The entire cost of running America’s prison system exceeds $119 billion ...

A new study, co-authored by an esteemed University of Cincinnati criminologist, has found that most Americans have an ...

In the comparison, which included countries with a population of at least ... have incarceration rates higher than the incarceration rate of the United States. The lowest rate among U.S. states ...

For the first time since the 1990s, the state prison population has increased for two years in a row. That’s likely in part due to increased crime. Jurisdictions across the United States ...