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I Spent Over 40 Years Working in Corrections. I Wasn’t Ready for Rikers.

Rikers Island jail complex “reflects our nation’s racist and destructive fixation on imprisonment,” writes former New York City jails commissioner Vincent Schiraldi. “It’s Exhibit A for why we need to end mass incarceration.”

Life Inside • 10.28.2022

There Are Fewer People Behind Bars Now Than 10 Years Ago. Will It Last?

Census data show incarceration rates are down. It may have more to do with the pandemic than broad reforms.

Analysis • 09.27.2021

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

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