In the previous 40 years, the number of persons in the country’s prisons and jails has increased by 500 percent. The majority of this […]

Is it true that the majority of individuals in jail are being kept without charge? What percentage of violent offenders in prison is due

There was a time when crime dominated the news in America. In 1968, Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon aired a campaign commercial featuring a

The prison and jail population in the United States has grown at an unparalleled rate since the early 1970s. The number of persons detained

In American prisons, blacks have historically outnumbered whites. Over the last decade, however, a dramatic decrease in the number of black prisoners has slowly