The number of people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails more than quadrupled between 1975 and 2005, reaching the unprecedented level of over two million inm

An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals. The

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades.

Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than seven-fold to over two million people, including vastly dispropor

Between 1975 and 2007, the American incarceration rate increased nearly fivefold, a historic increase that puts the United States in a league of its own among a