"The United States is now a world leader when it comes to incarceration," Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and co-author ...

Lawmakers already have a study of sentencing issues in the works for the interim, but Wrigley wants a task force controlled ...

Mass incarceration is a complex issue that cannot be solved by simply tweaking the system, but rather by addressing the root ...

Liberty and incarceration are opposites but "justice for all" should apply to people in or out of jail, says the new director ...

This legislative stalemate underscores a troubling pattern of misplaced priorities. While critical budgetary decisions were ...

Australia leads the world in community-based needle programs. Yet they’re not used in prisons – which are hotspots for ...

Bukele is one of the more successful examples of the global wave of elected authoritarians eroding democratic norms. Few other practitioners of this authoritarian playbook are as popular at home. Not ...

Since Bukele launched his crackdown in March 2022, El Salvador has the world’s highest incarceration rate. About 3% of adult men are behind bars. Anyone who looks suspicious, especially people ...

Crime Bill, a misguided policy choice rooted in fear and misinformation, has inflicted irreparable harm on communities nationwide. By prioritizing punitive measures over proven prevention strategies, ...

El Salvador now has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with roughly 110,000 people in jail. The proportion of its population that is incarcerated is twice that of the next nearest ...

Trump said over the weekend that he’s not concerned about human rights abuses at the Salvadoran jails, which last month ...

In half the country, sex offense civil commitment incarcerates people after they complete their prison sentences.