The Sentencing Project Finds Huge Racial Disparities Among Youth, a Wake Up Call for Reform
By Zoey Hou and Stacie Guevara WASHINGTON DC – The Sentencing Project has found new racial and…
Report Finds Reoffending Is Relatively Low after Life-Sentence: ‘More Punishment Does Not Lead to Less Crime’
By Angie Madrid WASHINGTON, DC — As the U.S. deals with the issue of mass incarceration, a…
REPORT: U.S. Obsession with Increasingly Extreme Prison Sentences
By Alexander Ramirez WASHINGTON D.C. – Research done by The Sentencing Project has shown that the number…
Possible Solutions to Prediction that Mass Incarceration will Last for 60 Years
By Avalon Amaral and Mia Machado After a decade of insufficient and incohesive decarceration efforts, the current…
Second Look Amendment Act Extends Resentencing Eligibility for Crimes Committed by Felons Before Age 25
By Linhchi Nguyen WASHINGTON D.C. – The Council of the District of Columbia overwhelmingly passed the Second…
Medical, Public Health Experts Urge President-Elect Transition COVID Advisory Board to Reduce Incarcerated Populations
By Carlin Ross WASHINGTON D.C. – Two-hundred experts in the medical and public health community sent a…
Sentencing Project Research Study Reveals Modern Female Incarceration Population Is Seven Times Higher Than 1980
By Macy Lu and Cailin Garcia WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Sentencing Project released a new report titled…
The Sentencing Project Highlights Youth Incarceration During Pandemic
By Lauren Smith WASHINGTON D.C. – Josh Rovner, Senior Advocacy Associate at The Sentencing Project, a research…
Life Sentence Survivors Speak on Dismantling Mass Incarceration
By Kelly Moran DETROIT – A virtual panel via Zoom focused on re-evaluating life sentences in U.S….
Felony Disenfranchisement Report Reveals Millions Prevented from Voting
By Kelsea Valerio WASHINGTON, DC – The Sentencing Project’s “Locked out 2020” report revealed Friday an estimated…
Disenfranchisement Finds New Victim in Southern States: The Latinx Community
By Pavan Potti WASHINGTON D.C. – Recent studies released by the Sentencing Project—designed to calculate the scope…
Iowa Governor Restores Right to Vote for Those Convicted of Felonies
By Ayanna Gandhi IOWA – Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds Wednesday signed an executive order automatically restoring the…
Sentencing Project Talks Strategies on Reducing Incarceration during COVID-19
By Metyia Phillips The Sentencing Project recently hosted a Zoom talk about current COVID-19 decarceration strategies used…
Bipartisan Coalition Calls on President Trump to Commute Federal Prison Sentences for Populations Most Vulnerable to Coronavirus
(The following is a letter from a group of criminal justice reform groups seeking the President to…
Reconsidering Who Is Kept In Prison: Considering Second Look Legislation
By Danielle Silva The Justice Collaborative hosted a webinar on Second Look Legislation, methods that offer alternatives…
The Way Forward against Death by Incarceration in Pennsylvania
by Vaidya Gullapalli Yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board looked at two overlapping injustices in Pennsylvania: the large number…
Racial Impact Statements Help Prevent Regressive Criminal Justice Reform
By Danielle Eden Silva While criminal justice reform is usually associated with being progressive, some laws continue…
Latino Youth 65% More Likely than Whites to be Incarcerated
A new fact sheet from The Sentencing Project highlights the persistence of incarceration disparities among youth of…
Jeff Sessions Wants a New War on Drugs – It Won’t Work
By David Cole and Marc Mauer Attorney General Jeff Sessions is right to be concerned about recent…
Report to Committee on Elimination of Racial Disparities in US Criminal Justice System
Established in 1986, The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by…