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Justifications for Punishment
Correctional History
Race and Disparities: Understanding the issues
Sentencing
Community Corrections
Jails and Detention Centers
Prisons and Lived Experience
Legal Issues in Corrections

The Marshall Project

Life Inside, Remixed: What 90 Days in Jail Taught a Poet About America October 4, 2024
Ravi Shankar was born in D.C. to South Indian parents. But it took going to jail for him to fully understand what many other Americans of color face.
Discredited Hair Analysis Is Fueling Efforts to Overturn Convictions October 3, 2024
Rapper Common talks about his work bringing music into prisons, and incarcerated people fight their convictions from debunked forensic science.
Cleveland Police Stop and Search Black Drivers at Higher Rates Despite DOJ Oversight October 1, 2024
Review of 17,000 Cleveland police stops shows Black people are searched three times as often, yet White people have contraband at near equal rates.

Prison Policy Initiative

Candidates for office use jail and prison as "one size fits all" policy solutions. Here’s how to push back
Added Candidates for office use jail and prison as "one size fits all" policy solutions. Here’s how to push back to the Prison Policy Blog. Ahead of the November elections, we packaged up the facts you need to push for community safety, not cages.
Legal Resources
The legal resource database was updated with a new listing for District of Columbia.
Changes to federal race & ethnicity standards give states an opportunity to improve data for prison gerrymandering reform
Added Changes to federal race & ethnicity standards give states an opportunity to improve data for prison gerrymandering reform to the Prisoners of the Census Blog. States should consider new race and ethnicity standards when preparing to implement prison gerrymandering reform in the 2030 redistricting cycle

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