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These Meds Prevent Overdoses. Few Federal Prisoners Are Getting Them

Three years after the First Step Act required the Bureau of Prisons to treat more people with medications for opioid addiction, only a tiny fraction are receiving them.

News • 08.10.2021

The United States of Incarceration

The United States locks up more people per capita than any other developed country. Here’s why.

The System • 11.11.2020

First Step Offers Release for Some Prisoners—But Not Non-Citizens

About 750 federal inmates will be transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody starting in mid-July.

News • 06.18.2019

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